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Re: [LUG] System down...

 

FollowedÂ
http://superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation

To the line containing /proc/mountsÂ
At which it denies any knowledge of such a thing.Â

Do I need to worry about that and my mtab?




On Thursday, 26 May 2016, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Thursday, 26 May 2016, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26/05/16 21:03, Adrian Midgley wrote:

Nope, you'll be ok with the DVD: as long as you can boot to a shell from
anything other than the internal disks you've got all you need. The
recovery environment must be able to get you online though, which can be
anÂ

If you can boot to aroot shell and get internet access you're good to go.



Got that.
Ok...Â
So, Âboot back into rescue system and as for a shell in the installer environment rather than using a partition as root?

Graphical rescue mode running...


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