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ryz

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From: germany

Registered: 2008-01-28

Posts: 9

booting root partition with the arch cd

hi,

i've read the following article:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boo … recovering

at the archlinux install cd, when i try to boot with

arch root=/dev/sda3

GRUB does not recognize this command.
i'm using the newest archlinux install cd available.

any ways to boot my system with the kernel from the archlinux install cd?

ryz

Issh

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 58

Re: booting root partition with the arch cd

Can you just mnt your disk to say /mnt and then mount all the partitions into there and then chroot into it?

pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 1,395

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Re: booting root partition with the arch cd

I do not know what the grub configuration file looks like on the live cd/install cd, but I'd imagine you would just want to modify the exiting entry and change root=

Another solution, boot from cd

1. mkdir /mnt/sda1
2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
3. mount -t proc none /mnt/sda1/proc
4. mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sda1/dev
5. chroot /mnt/sda1 /bin/bash

and then fix your system from that point

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ryz

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From: germany

Registered: 2008-01-28

Posts: 9

Re: booting root partition with the arch cd

thank you both, chroot works just fine!

Onwards

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From: Pakistan

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 108

Re: booting root partition with the arch cd

Mark it SOLVED please !!