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Next, boot from a linux ISO or floppy boot disk to get to a root shell prompt. 'fdisk /dev/hdb' followed by 'p' should show your layout. In my case, I had a 512 mb swap partition as /dev/hdb1 and the rest of the disk as a single boot partition called /dev/hdb2.
!! Mount your existing root partition and set it as root
-This is done as follows; 'mkdir /mnt' will make a mount point if not alreeady
present. Next, mount the partition displayed by fdisk, in this case hdb2, as follows: 'mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt'.
+This is done as follows; 'mkdir /mnt' will make a mount point if not already
present.
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Next, mount the partition displayed by fdisk, in this case hdb2, as follows:
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'mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt'.
Finally, we set this as our root partition for further work. This will make life much easier as we will no longer load binaries from CDRom or floppy with the associated loading delays:
'chroot /mnt bash'
