[RHCE] troubleshooting preperatoin

[Joseph Tate]

cd /mnt/sysimage
chroot .
Also works well before you reboot after doing an install from the shell 
at Alt-F2

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

>One drawback to using a Knoppix CD to troubleshoot a Red Hat install --
>you don't have accses to rpm.  Running rpm with the "--root
>/mnt/sysimage" option can be very useful for a number of reasons, such
>as correcting the glibc update if you installed the wrong one, for
>example.  (See my previous post.)
>
>--Jeremy
>
>On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 19:11, Jon Carnes wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm going to boot to knoppix and explore around.  That will confirm that
>>it isn't a hardware or disk problem. After that I'll just make sure the
>>data is safe (and the configurations: /etc copied to a safe place), and
>>then I'll try the install myself.
>>
>>Moving it back to RHCE... If I didn't have Knoppix, I would just boot
>>the RH cd's to rescue mode and do my poking that way.
>>
>>I would love to have you come along, but I'd have to ask the client
>>first... and they won't be in the office again till tomorrow :-(
>>
>>Take care - Jon
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 18:59, Jason Tower wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>what did they do - try to apply windows updates?  *grin*
>>>
>>>knoppix is terrific for such situations (or the red hat rescue cd, but i 
>>>find that knoppix is more full featured and offers more networking 
>>>tools and utilities, including X).  it has saved my butt on more than 
>>>one occasion.  i'll be happy to join you if you want, it's always 
>>>informative to watch a pro in action :)
>>>
>>>jason
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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