I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files.
I used the "-5" option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted some of my config files such as /etc/fstab. The result is that I cannot boot gentoo anymore. Pretty bad...
I guess i missed something with the use of etc-update. How should we use that tool?
Hopefully i can boot a different version of linux and access to my config file for gentoo by mounting the partitions. I tried to recreate my /etc/fstab but my system cannot boot. It complains with the something like:
Mount proc at /proc The "mount' command failed line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad [mnent] line 15 in /etc/fstab is bad ....
Note 1. I commented the line /dev/hda1 but if i uncomment it i get the same problem. Note 2. My gentoo is installed on my disk /dev/hdb, but lilo is on hda1-- hda is the disk where i have my other version of linux. it worked welll before I got this problem with etc-update.
My /etc/fstab seems OK to me:
-------------------------------------
:53 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto, noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb3 / reiserfs noatime, notail 1 0 <- This is line 14
/dev/hdb5 /usr reiserfs noatime, notail 1 0
/dev/hdb6 /var reiserfs noatime, notail 1 0
/dev/hdb7 /home reiserfs noatime, notail 1 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/sh tmpfs defaults 0 0 -----------------------------------------------------------
Can the problem be somewhere else-- maybe another config file has been replaced after I ran etc-update?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
S.
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