Re: [gentoo-user] (solved) Installing CD Burner question

[Stephen Liu]

Hall Stevenson wrote:

At 10:55 AM 10/27/2003, you wrote:

If the file system is reiser, try reiserfsck --rebuild-sb

[root@(none) /]# reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hde3
super.c 309 rebuild_sb
rebuils_sb: cannot open device /dev/hde3


Are you sure that hde3 is the right device ?? How many hard drives 
do you have in this machine ?? That would be master HD on a tertiary 
controller (probably an add-in controllor card).
Yes. The hard drive is connected to a ATA66 controller.

Problem has been solved. Please see my last reply to mathieu

Thanks

Stephen



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Re: [gentoo-user] (solved) Installing CD Burner question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Paul,

Problem has been solved.  Please see my last reply to mathieu.

I will come back to installing CD burner problem later

Thanks

Stephen

Paul Kimberley wrote:

Noted.  I will proceed after having the OS fixed.

HELP 
My OS crashed while playing around to install the burner.
Last modification made
/etc/devfsd.conf
umcomment following line
Create /dev/cdrw for the first cdrom on the scsi bus
(remark :  /dev/scsi   found)
type `sync;halt' and then hit reset
It looks like you messed up your devfs, Hopefully your single usermode
is still working.
if you couldn't find your grub.conf, that means your probably using
lilo! So assuming that this might work
-- To get into single user mode -
When you boot your computer you should see the lilo prompt and then
after a preset time your computer should boot linux(if no prompt hold
shift while booting).
when you see the lilo: prompt hit tab it will give you a list of OS's to
boot. 

usually Linux is called 'linux'
then type 'linux 1'
this tells lilo to boot linux in init level 1, which is single user
mode.
3 is multi user, and 5 is usually XDM
Once your in, try to undo your changes.

If that doesn't work use the gentoo basic CD to boot into rescue mode.
then at a prompt mount your root fs into a new directory then do the
changes.
i.e 
	mkdir /mnt/linux
	mount -t (ext2/3/reiserfs) /dev/hda1 /mnt/linux
	vi /mnt/linux/etc/devfs.conf

let me know if this helps.

 

Now I can't even shudown Gentoo
[root@(none) boot]# shutdown -h now
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
Nor can I locate grub.conf
[root@(none) boot]# locate grub.conf
/usr/share/doc/grub-0.93.20030118/grub/conf/sample.gz


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