2010/9/10 Jake Moe <jakesaddr...@gmail.com>: > Hello all, > > I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue > purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the > Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no > swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system > capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes > in after what I believe is the init process: > > > Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org > Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 > > Press I to enter interactive boot mode > > * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ > ok ] > * Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ > ok ] > * Mounting /dev ... [ > ok ] > * Starting udevd ... [ > ok ] > * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ > ok ] > * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ > ok ] > * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ > ok ] > * Checking root filesystem ... > fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 > /dev/sda1: > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> > > * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ > !! ] > Give root password for maintenance > (or type Control-D to continue): > > > If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows > /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder > in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it > somehow. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be > appreciated. >
Have you seen http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ? It's based on Gentoo, you could check what they did to boot from a usb stick. Br, Maciej Grela
