Repairing a failed grub_pc installation

[Michael Tautschnig]

> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:52 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > >>>>> 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.
> 

The code is in lib/fai-mount-disk, but I have no idea whether this still works,
I'm slightly confused by the bash magic in there.

[...]
> Is it possible that the missing /usr/({s}bin|lib) is causing problems
> for udev, and that leads to partially-populated /dev?
> 

I don't think that /dev is bind-mounted into /target in case of sysinfo - for
installs this happens in updatebase only, which obviously isn't run in case of
sysinfo. Hence your problems with that.

Best regards,
Michael

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