[clue-tech] Compaq Armada 3500 woes

[Bill Smith]

I'm a relative newbie, so exactly what are the commands, and in what order? Thanks Bill
 


Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:15:40 -0700
From: g1ccross at gmail.com
To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Compaq Armada 3500 woes


I think you need to mount /dev to to chroot before chrooting. Try mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev. I am not sure but I usually mount proc in the chroot also.
On Nov 23, 2010 9:08 AM, "Bill Smith" <wpsmithii at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I dug around and found a grub install procedure for Knoppix. Here's what happened. First I did "fdisk -1" and I got 3 partitions as I had installed. The boot was /dev/sda1 and it was listed as ID: 83 ,system: linux, this should be ext3, the start was 1 end was 2374, 19+ Gig. The commands I used as root are as follows:
> mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/sda1 /mnt
> chroot /mnt
> grub-install /dev/sda 
> The feedback from this was
> /dev/sda: Not found or not a block device
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance. Bill 

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