-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 15:33, Nicholas Pappas wrote: > Hello all. > > I've felt my way through the install process for Gentoo for my first > time and everything seemed to work out... but I seem to have missed > something, somewhere. :( > When the OS attempts to load, I get an error when trying to mount the > filesystem. The system can not find "modules.conf" (it is, infact, > *not* there). It complains about that a few more times and then pops up > this message:
Once you're running, run modules-update. That will build a modules.conf from the files in /etc/modules.d/ > If the partition table has not be changed, and the partition is valid > and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is > corrupted and you need to run --rebuild-sb. > > My root parition is ReiserFS (boot is ext3). I finally get an error > message: > > Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/ROOT exited with signal 6. > * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( > > I'm then asked for the root password, so I can try and repair something > I don't know how I broke in the first place. > Could anyone please help me out to get my system to boot? This is my > first attempt at Gentoo, and I'm a bit confused as to what I should even > be looking for right now. Christopher has already answered this. Boot with you're gentoo CD, chroot in and fix things. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TMSVInuLMrk7bIwRArALAJ0WbV/oZUjTgt52B3G0uPawdPVXRwCgrdeq ixnjusTlBeeUieDj5NByiXI= =cGln -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
