What other improvements can be added to rescue mode to provide user-friendly common resuce options?<br>1- grub-install<br>2- ?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Nelson</b> <
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At 6:12 AM -0400 3/21/07, Neal Becker wrote:<br>>Leszek Matok wrote:<br>><br>>> Dnia 20-03-2007, wto o godzinie 07:10 -0700, John Reiser napisa?(a):<br>>>> > Why don't you install grub on the broken system and boot it?
<br>>>> Because rescue mode cannot install grub via grub-install; reported as:<br>>>> <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064">http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064
</a><br>>>> The mechanism that grub-install uses to identify the "hardware"<br>>>> is incompatible with the "virtualization" provided by chroot<br>>>> and rescue mode.<br>>> But it works with grub-install --root-directory, at least in F6 (fully
<br>>> updated F6 and rescue mode from the original install CD - tested<br>>> yesterday). The chroot has problems related to mtab, which can be faked,<br>>> but --root-directory was simpler and it works.
<br>>><br>>> And for the original poster: you can make a boot floppy for your system.<br>>> I don't remember if Anaconda still has an option for it, though.<br>>><br>>> Lam<br>><br>>My immediate need is this. I have a system with a pair of scsi disks. It
<br>>also has 1 SATA drive. For some reason I can't understand, the SATA drive<br>>is not seen by the BIOS, so I can't boot off it, but Fedora has no trouble<br>>understanding that it's there and is happy to install /boot onto it. Of
<br>>course, I have no way to boot it.<br>><br>>I haven't tried to make a boot floppy in years. Any hints?<br><br>Probably just put the grub bootsector into a file on the floppy, similar to<br>booting through NTLDR.
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