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-To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, -grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted -environment. We need to update /etc/mtab (the file with information -about all mounted filesystems) first: luckily there is an easy way to accomplish -this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab: +To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. +However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a +chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all +mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - +just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding +the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The +following command will work in both cases:

-# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
++# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
 
 
 



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-To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However,
-grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted
-environment. We need to update /etc/mtab (the file with information
-about all mounted filesystems) first: luckily there is an easy way to accomplish
-this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab:
+To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command.
+However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a
+chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all
+mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this -
+just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding
+the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The
+following command will work in both cases:
 
 
--# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
++# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
 
 
 



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