Improvement to rescue mode?

John Reiser jreiser at BitWagon.com
Tue Mar 20 14:10:58 UTC 2007


>> I have found on a number of occasions that I wanted to use a rescue cd to
>> boot an installation, where the grub install was broken.  It would be
>> really helpful if the fedora rescue mode would allow this.

> Why don't you install grub on the broken system and boot it?

Because rescue mode cannot install grub via grub-install; reported as:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064
The mechanism that grub-install uses to identify the "hardware"
is incompatible with the "virtualization" provided by chroot
and rescue mode.

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