On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:50:00 +1000, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
When you said "Try to mount all your partition under /mnt and run chroot" did you imply some other things needed to be done that you didn't list?
This usually means: mount the root partition under /mnt, then other partitions at the appropriate mount points under /mnt/whatever, e.g., /mnt/user, /mnt/home, depending on your partitioning scheme.
As I said I am using Knoppix live, which is a 32 bit version. The system I'm trying to rescue is 64 bit. Is that an issue?
Yes it is if you're trying to run programs from the installed system within a chroot, which you won't be able to do as they are 64-bit executables.
I would recommend a 64-bit version of the rescue disk.
In an attempt to see if I could get a bit further I booted a 64 bit system in rescue mode, but that doesn't provide grub.
64-bit Knoppix or similar would be better, I think.
I couldn't find a 64-bit Knoppix disc, but did have a Fedora x86_64 live disc, so tried that. Also a bit more research turned up a similar story resulting from an update of LMDE, which describes the solution thus... Boot a live disc su - mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc chroot /mnt update-grub2 So followed that prescription but mounted /dev/sda1. Running SystemRescue and gparted shows two partitions and swap. If I remember correctly sda1 is system and sda2 is extended, with sda5, which is my user space. A reboot (using any of the grub menu items) still results in "error: no such partition". So, it would seem that I am not tacking this correctly. Anyone have any other suggestions as what I can try? Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell