Comments on: HOWTO: /dev file system in chroot-ed environment

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:49:00 +0000

Thanks a lot, works great!!

Hpno2 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:32:47 +0000

Well it works, many thanks

drsputnik0815 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:25:29 +0000

Thank You – if got the same problem, and you help me!!!!!

it works fine

linuxguy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:36:18 +0000

Thanks for this bind option in rescue system.

In openSuse 10.2 the “-o bind” option works.

Rescue:~ # mount -o rw /dev/rootpartion /mnt/newroot
Rescue:~ # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/newroot/dev

Then

Rescue:~ # chroot /mnt/newroot

Then one can change root password etc.

Rescue:/ # passwd root

swamytk — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:00:53 +0000

In some system mount command does not accept “–bind” option, it accepts “-o bind” instead.

swamytk — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:06:59 +0000

Thanks toolman for pointing out the syntax error. It is a typo mistake. “bind” should be preceded with two hyphens as shown below:

# mount –bind /dev /mnt/newroot/dev

toolman — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:37:32 +0000

This isn’t quite correct, at least for my distro (ubuntu). the command at step 2 is:

mount -o bind /dev /location/of/mountpoint/dev