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.