On 17:57 Sun 12 Oct , Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Barry, > > Thanks for your advice. > > Finally I got the problem fixed. Now Gentoo can be started. I > can mount CDRom but not Floppy. > > # mount -t ext2 (ext3 or dos) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or > too many mounted file systems > I also tried > # mount /mnt/floppy with no result
You must specify the correct fs type. For a Windows floppy: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > My /etc/fstab > ........ > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, owner, kudzu > (I have this line "proc /proc proc default > whether I need it) > > However '/boot/grub/grub.conf' disappears, both the folder > 'grub' and 'grub.conf' > > # updatedb > # locate grub.conf > /usr/share/doc/grub-0.93.20030118/grub.conf.sample.gz > > Could not find it !!!!! There is nothing under /boot/ Gentoo doesn't mount /boot by default. You have to mount it (as root). > I still have following problems. > > 1) sound card could not be detected (I will deal it as a new > issue in another posting) > > 2) bootdisk could not boot the new system automatically. It > prompted; > grub> > > (Remark: I created it according to Code listing 24.1 as follows) > > # cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/ > # cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0 > > I could not mount it to read its content > > 3) I could not connect broadband > > My /etc/conf.d/net > iface_eth1="dhcp" (only one line. only one ethernet card) > > # adsl-setup (tried as ROOT and Super ROOT) > - bash: adsl-setup: command not found > # neat > - bash: neat: command not found How did you boot it? Also, if you have only 1 nic, you device is eth0. > > I need to connect to broadband because I expect to continue > installing other packages such as KDE, GNOME and update them from > Internet. > > >starbaby (~) $ sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /boot > >starbaby (~) $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > >default 0 > >timeout 30 > >splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >title=Gentoo Linux > >root (hd1,0) > >kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hdb3 > >hdc=ide-scsi > >initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 > > > > > a) What are following lines used for > > starbaby (~) $ sudo mount /dev/hdb1 /boot > starbaby (~) $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf sudo allows certain users to execute certain root commands (emerge app-admin/sudo, then man sudo) . I just mounted /boot (not mounted by default, as per above), and read grub.conf to stdout. > > b) Why you use (hd1,0) not (hd0,0) ? Because my /boot is on the 1st partition of my 2nd hd. Grub uses formal computer science parlance, i.e., the first device (or whatever) is 0, the 2nd, 1, etc. -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
