Daft question: How to chroot?

**unobtanium** · 08-13-2005

Could somebody please tell me what to type to chroot back into the Gentoo installer so that I can edit my grub.conf.
I have searched this subject and it seems to be general knowledge that is assumed that people know, I'm afraid I don't.

**josolanes** · 08-13-2005

first you want to mount your boot partition, whether it's different from your root partition or not by doing "mount /dev/hda1" (assuming it's on the first partition of your first harddrive, if not than adjust accordingly), then follow these steps to chroot into it (taken from the Gentoo handbook):

Code:

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
 * Caching service dependencies...
# source /etc/profile

**unobtanium** · 08-13-2005

Thank you
Tried that and I get the following

Code:

mount point /mnt/gentoo/proc does not exist

What am I doing wrong?

**dylunio** · 08-13-2005

Originally Posted by unobtanium

Thank you
Tried that and I get the following

Code:

mount point /mnt/gentoo/proc does not exist

What am I doing wrong?

Try

Code:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc

and then

Code:

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
 * Caching service dependencies...
# source /etc/profile

as stated above

**loft306** · 08-29-2005

errr

Code:

mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/gentoo

then the proc and the chroot

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