[CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Tue Aug 3 04:19:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:07:58AM -0400, Edward Diener wrote:

> Attempting to use 'rescue mode" to automatically mount my system under 
> /mnt/sysimage eventally fails with an error message, which essentially 
> says 'mount error' and nothing else. I am then put at a command prompt 
> as root.

I'm guessing (I'm not all that familiar with the sysimage thing--I
usually just mount things on /mnt) that you probably need to do

mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc

However, as I said, I'm not familiar with the sysimage thing, I've
always just skipped that when using rescue and gone to a shell prompt. 

So, take that as a major disclaimer.

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