Problem has been solved. Please see my last reply to mathieu.
I will come back to "installing CD burner problem" later
Thanks
Stephen
Paul Kimberley wrote:
Noted. I will proceed after having the OS fixed.
HELP !!!! My OS crashed while playing around to install the burner.
Last modification made /etc/devfsd.conf umcomment following line Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus
(remark : /dev/scsi found) type `sync;halt' and then hit reset
It looks like you messed up your devfs, Hopefully your single usermode is still working.
if you couldn't find your grub.conf, that means your probably using lilo! So assuming that this might work
-- To get into single user mode -----
When you boot your computer you should see the lilo prompt and then
after a preset time your computer should boot linux(if no prompt hold
shift while booting).
when you see the lilo: prompt hit tab it will give you a list of OS's to
boot.
usually Linux is called 'linux' then type 'linux 1' this tells lilo to boot linux in init level 1, which is single user mode. 3 is multi user, and 5 is usually XDM
Once your in, try to undo your changes.
If that doesn't work use the gentoo basic CD to boot into rescue mode.
then at a prompt mount your root fs into a new directory then do the
changes.
i.e mkdir /mnt/linux
mount -t (ext2/3/reiserfs) /dev/hda1 /mnt/linux
vi /mnt/linux/etc/devfs.conf
let me know if this helps.
Now I can't even shudown Gentoo [root@(none) boot]# shutdown -h now init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
Nor can I locate grub.conf [root@(none) boot]# locate grub.conf /usr/share/doc/grub-0.93.20030118/grub/conf/sample.gz
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