Hmm. I see others are saying it might be genkernel also - did you run it? Something is strange as emerge -u world doesn't normally hose up files like this.
Anyway to fix it boot the live CD, then mount the parititon gentoo is on as /mnt/gentoo, cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab. You can do this with any files you need to fix. > > From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 11:22:00 GMT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' > > Hi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You need to fix > >fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of > >file systems in. > > > >Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. > > > > > I have not run 'etc-upgrade'. The problem happened after 'emerge -u > world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same > trap. > > Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I > am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as > USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I > am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? > > TIA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
