Chroot with ease

Features

Setup a chroot and chroot in in a single command
The ability to reinstall grub easily

Obtaining

Just get the script:

wget https://gitlab.com/BobyMCbobs/simplechroot/raw/1.1.0/simplechroot
chmod +x simplechroot

Usage

# find partitions if you don't know them
simplechroot -l
# chroot into an already mounted root partition
simplechroot -r /mnt/rootPartition
# chroot into an umounted root partition (using it's node name)
simplechroot -r /dev/sda2
# mount the boot node and chroot (on if there is a boot partition)
simplechroot -r /dev/sda2 -b /dev/sda1
# mount the boot node, chroot, and reinstall grub
simplechroot -r /dev/sda2 -b /dev/sda1 --reinstall-grub
# mount the boot node, chroot, and run a single command
simplechroot -r /dev/sda2 -b /dev/sda1 -c "ls -alh /bin/."

Arg	Description
`-l` or `--list-partitions`	List partitions and LVM partition
`-r` or `--root`	Mounted root partition path or devfs node (i.e: /mnt/p, /dev/sda2, /dev/nvme0n1p2)
`-b` or `--boot`	Boot partition devfs node (i.e: /dev/sda1, /dev/nvme0n1p1)
`-rg` or `--reinstall-grub`	Reinstall grub on the given drive (requires -r and -b)
`-c` or `--command`	Pass a command inside the chroot environment

Packaging

AppImage: make prep-appimage && make build-appimage
deb package: make deb-pkg
deb source package: make deb-src
zip package: make build-zip
spec file: support/specs/simplechroot.spec

Notes

This has been tested:
- Elementary OS 5.0
- Fedora Workstation 28 & 29
- openSUSE Leap 15
- Ubuntu 18.04 & 18.10

License

Copyright 2018 Caleb Woodbine.
This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 and is free software.
This program comes with absolutely no warranty.