What's the proper way to prepare chroot to recover a broken Linux installation?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/111152/w...

Question links:
[many]: https://superuser.com/questions/25168/re...
[situations]: https://superuser.com/questions/110913/r...
[recovery]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Recove...
[How-Tos]: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/...
[chroot]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot

Accepted answer links:
[ArchLinux wiki on "Change Root"]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chan...
[ArchLinux Wiki on "Reinstalling GRUB"]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rein...
[Gentoo Wiki on "Chroot from a livecd"]: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Chroot_fr...

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