Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 960

utilities to check and repair the ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, dosfs, and vfat
file systems.
Accessing the Installed System
If you need to access the installed system from the rescue system to, for example,
modify the boot loader configuration, or to execute a hardware configuration utility,
you need to do this in a "change root" environment.
To set up a "change root" environment based on the installed system, proceed as fol-
lows:
1 First mount the root partition from the installed system and the device file system:
2 Now you can "change root" into the new environment:
3 Then mount /proc and /sys:
4 Finally, mount the remaining partitions from the installed system:
5 Now you have access to the installed system. Before rebooting the system, un-
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mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt
mount /proc
mount /sys
mount -a
mount the partitions with umount -a and leave the "change root" environment
with exit.