Improvement to rescue mode?

[Ahmed Kamal]

What other improvements can be added to rescue mode to provide user-friendly
common resuce options?
1- grub-install
2- ?

On 3/22/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> At 6:12 AM -0400 3/21/07, Neal Becker wrote:
> >Leszek Matok wrote:
> >
> >> Dnia 20-03-2007, wto o godzinie 07:10 -0700, John Reiser napisa?(a):
> >>> > Why don't you install grub on the broken system and boot it?
> >>> Because rescue mode cannot install grub via grub-install; reported as:
> >>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064
> >>> The mechanism that grub-install uses to identify the "hardware"
> >>> is incompatible with the "virtualization" provided by chroot
> >>> and rescue mode.
> >> But it works with grub-install --root-directory, at least in F6 (fully
> >> updated F6 and rescue mode from the original install CD - tested
> >> yesterday). The chroot has problems related to mtab, which can be
> faked,
> >> but --root-directory was simpler and it works.
> >>
> >> And for the original poster: you can make a boot floppy for your
> system.
> >> I don't remember if Anaconda still has an option for it, though.
> >>
> >> Lam
> >
> >My immediate need is this.  I have a system with a pair of scsi
> disks.  It
> >also has 1 SATA drive.  For some reason I can't understand, the SATA
> drive
> >is not seen by the BIOS, so I can't boot off it, but Fedora has no
> trouble
> >understanding that it's there and is happy to install /boot onto it.  Of
> >course, I have no way to boot it.
> >
> >I haven't tried to make a boot floppy in years.  Any hints?
>
> Probably just put the grub bootsector into a file on the floppy, similar
> to
> booting through NTLDR.
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