> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:55 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] /mnt/sysimage/dev folder in rescue mode > > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > If I boot C5 from DVD in rescue mode, > > chroot to /mnt/sysimage, and try to do a > > grub-install /dev/sda it will fail because > > the /dev folder is empty (in the chroot environment). > > > > Until now I've then created the missing nodes manually, > > but is there a smarter way of doing this? Some devfs > > that needs to be mounted on top of /dev? > > > > won't this work? > grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sysimage > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Once fully booted into the rescue environment I do the following: a) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/ (replace /dev/sda1 with your root partition or logvol) b) mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev c) mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sysimage/sys d) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc e) chroot /mnt/sysimage Regards, Dan