[PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sun Nov 25 02:15:50 UTC 2018


On 11/24/18 5:56 PM, Tomas K wrote:
> chroot command simply sets different root directory for a command -
> thus that command:
>    a) sees different root directory
>    b) cannot access anything outside that directory (aka chroot jail)
>
> Example:
>    1. Imagine you just mounted:
>       mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/hd
>    2. Executing:
>       sudo chroot /mnt/hd /bin/bash
>       will execute bash from inside /mnt/hd (running /mnt/hd/bin/bash)
>       as if you would have booted from there
>
> What Ben, most likely, wants to guide you through is running lilo as if
> booted from the disk mounted on /mnt/hd - thus updating the Lilo
> config.
>
> I will not guess further because I forgot most things about Lilo long
> time ago. The Linuxes I use boot using Grub for long time and/or boot
> using UEFI directly these days.
>
> Hope it makes sense.
> Tomas

Makes sense, but isn't working. I'm logged in as root, so I didn't use 
sudo, but otherwise, I ran it the same:

chroot /mnt/hd /bin/bash

and got :

chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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