Thanks for sending that, Russell.
I'm good now, but I'd still like to know how to successfully use chroot.
My scenario was, I booted with a drive to fix another that was having
boot problems, so I wanted my root to change so my changes would reflect
on the drive I wanted to fix. I couldn't get chroot to commit. Is it
possible to do what I was trying to do? Is that what chroot was
designed for (sort of)?
Mario
Russell Hires wrote:
>Why exactly do you want to chroot? I don't think that's what you want. chroot
>will just make a new root directory under another (the original) root
>directory. You won't be able to boot from this directory, if that's what
>you're trying to do...
>
>I see you've posted to the debian-boot list, hopefully they'll be able to get
>you some answers. The other message I sent over there was ignored pretty
>much.... :-(
>
>Russell
>
>On Thursday 08 November 2001 00:05, you wrote:
>
>>I'm still hacking on this Sparc with no floppy and CD-ROM (arrrrggh!).
>> I've successfully found my old hard disk.
>>
>>After booting with my old disk, I'd like to change the root directory to
>>'bigdisk' which is mounted like this
>>
>>/mnt/bigdisk
>>
>>What's the syntax of the chroot command. Both filesystems are ext2.
>> I've read the help and man pages, but I think I'm doing something else
>>wrong (maybe I can't do this?). Thanks!
>>
>>Mario
>>
>
>
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