On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:57:35AM +0100, Christian Herzyk wrote: > Hello all, > > I got a problem at home right now. > Booting goes well until the "Adding swap" part. > After that I get the following errors: > /sbin/rc lin 262: install: command not found > /sbin/rc lin 299: install: command not found > ln: creating symbolic link `/mnt/init.d/softscripts.new/bootmisc` to > ``/etc/init.d/bootmisc`: No such file or directory > > The last one repeats lots of times and then I get one of these > "emergency prompts" > > Can anyone tell me what is wrong? > The last things I did was updating binutils and coreutils could this be it? > > If I boot from cd and chroot into my install all seems fine. I > re-emerged binutils and coreutils but that did not help.
Sorry if you tried it already, but did you double-check your /etc/fstab file? If you can find the file it complains about (i.e. /etc/init.d/bootmisc) in the 'chrooted' environment, it could be something very basic like broken fstab. If you are booting with 'initrd', try building necessary modules into kernel and boot without it. Personally I found it to be easier, but it's just me. The only additional modules you need to compile in in this case are: support for your file system and scsi/raid if any. Once it mounted a filesystem, kernel should have no trouble to load the rest of the drivers as modules (sound, etc.). In my case (no initrd) I have a kernel startup parameter like this 'root=/dev/hdb4' to tell it where my root filesystem is. >From grub.conf: title Gentoo Linux 2.4.22 r5 root (hd1,0) kernel (hd1,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 vga=0x0317 root=/dev/hdb4 hdc=ide-scsi Initrd emergency prompt has few tools available, not much but enough to poke around, you may notice something if you do. You can try to mount root partition yourself in it and see what happens, again, may give you some hints. -- - Andrey ~ In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different (Larry McVoy) ~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
