To my surprize, I can start 'Fail Safe'
Hereinbelow is /etc/fstab .... # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0 /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc proc defaults 0 0 .... ..... none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
Compared it with chapter 15 and found following difference /dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 0 (new)
/dev/ROOT / reiserfs noatime 0 1 (Chapter15 'reiserfs) (shall I change 'xfs' back to 'reiserfs'
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
(I think the above line was added during 'emerge -u world' and /mnt/cdwriter disappears)
I can login as ROOT without password but can't login as USER (satimis) with/without password.
# cat /etc/passwd root:x:0,0:root:root:/bin/bash ... ... Operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash
(USER/satimis not found there)
Kindly advise how to revive Gentoo. What shall I do next.
TIA
B.R. Stephen
Stephen Liu wrote:
I am not quite familiar with rescue on Gentoo. I shall do follows;
1) boot up the Gentoo box with the rescue diskette 2) mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo 3) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot 4) mount t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
there's a typo: mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc ^
5) chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash 6) nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab (to edit 'fstab')
change ROOT, BOOT and SWAP with the appropriate devices (/dev/hda3, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 I assume)
One thing I could not resolve why I can login as ROOT without password. If key in ROOT password then it says wrong password
This could mean that you've also overwritten your /etc/passwd. Is your normal user still in the /etc/passwd? If not, just add it with # useradd and reset your root-password with # passwd
I can't imagine how this can happen without the use of etc-update...
bye, christoph
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