Thanks for your advice.
Booting up Gentoo box with CD1 but I was not allowed to mount without knowing the FSThe problem happened after 'emerge -u world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same trap.You should boot from the original live-cd, mount /dev/hda1 (or whatever is your root device) to /mnt
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?
for example, if root is hda1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
fdisk -l only showing 'linux'
cfdisk /dev/hda3 showing FATAL ERROR: can't open disk drive press any key to exit
IIRC at time of installation I selected 'reiserfs'
Kindly advise how to find it out. TIA
B.R. Stephen
then
nano -w /mnt/etc/fstab
and change /dev/BOOT to /dev/hda1
Then you should be able to boot without the CD and sort out the remainder of the partitions. Don't forget to change the partition type from xfs to either auto or the correct fs type.
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