Repairing a failed grub_pc installation

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:41 +0200, Toomas Tamm <tt-fai at kky.ttu.ee> said:

    > First, the sysinfo system had not mounted /usr, /var, etc under /target.
    > Wasn't it the case some years ago that a system booted into FAI sysinfo
    > automagically found the root partitition and used the /etc/fstab there
    > to mount the remaining partitions under /target ? Has this functionality
    > been lost somehow?
This should still work. But I'm not sure if it also works when usiong
lvm and raid.

    > Once I manually had mounted /usr, I was met by an
    > incomplete /target/dev. While the "global" /dev contains 176 entries,
    > including /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, etc, the one at /target/dev has only 94
    > entries, and is, in particular, missing the disk entries /dev/sda,
    > /dev/sda1, etc. After some trial and error, I succeeded in creating
    > these manually. Why were they missing?
Very strange. Are you booting an older kernel when using sysinfo?

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regards Thomas