Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?

From	Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?
Date	2019-07-25 21:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 21:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 25 iul 19, 12:37:17, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > 	I mounted /dev/sde1 to /mnt and used rsync to copy
> > everything it could including devices to /home/wheezy
> > 
> > rsync --devices -alHvbq /mnt/ /home/wheezy
> 
> You might want to try bind mounting /dev from the host system before 
> chrooting.
> 
> mount -o bind /dev /home/wheezy/dev
> 
> /proc and /sys might also be needed for the chroot to work properly.
> 
> mount -t proc proc /home/wheezy/proc
> mount -t sysfs sys /home/wheezy/sys
> 

I've used 'schroot' in the past for this sort of thing, let's you
configure what to mount and I believe either defaults or has examples
for the common things you're likely to need like /dev and /proc. I
don't remember the details as it's been quite some years since I used
it.

-- 
Tixy

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Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 05:00 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-23 05:10 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-07-23 05:40 +0200
  Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 07:20 +0200
    Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 17:40 +0200
      Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-07-23 18:40 +0200
      Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 20:30 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-07-23 20:40 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-23 23:40 +0200
        Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-25 19:40 +0200
          Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 20:20 +0200
            Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-25 21:30 +0200
              Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-26 04:30 +0200
                Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 09:50 +0200

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