Imagine I have an unbootable system where I need to update the kernel image using
.
I have seen numerous examples online which show the following
After that we chroot into the broken OS and then execute the command to update the initramfs.
My questions are as follows-:
[LIST=1][*]Are we binding the /proc and /dev of the Live CD to the broken system ? Or are we binding the /proc and /dev of the broken system to the live cd ?
Neither. /dev and especially /proc are virtual filesystems, which don't show files but rather imaginary kernel things.
So they're neither livecd, nor your broken system, but something belonging to whatever kernel you're running.
These kernel / device interfaces are pretty hard for a system to do without.
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If building the initramfs is dependent on the information of the OS for which the initramfs is built then won't it contain erroneous information if we build for the Live CD ? That is use the /proc and /dev of the LiveCD ?
It doesn't so much archive them as use them.
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