OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I created, I took
my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems
impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my
baselayout!. Now all I get isinit # when booting. I tried to mount /usr,
and
At 15 July, 2003 Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I
> created, I took
> my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems
> impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my
> baselayout!. Now all I get
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:47:35 -0400
"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I
> created, I took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I
> know this seems impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I
> have) d
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:47, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I created, I
> took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems
> impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my
> baselayout!. Now a
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:47:35 -0400
"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I
> created, I took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I
> know this seems impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems
Not necessarily. If the legacy /dev entries got nuked, you'll need to
mount your filesystems manually with the devfs names.
Example:
mount -t reiserfs /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 /usr
and such. Unfortunately, dev entries aren't protected by portage, so if
devfsd isn't setup to
Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ ... ]
> boot with "init=/bin/sash"
very sound advice, and thank you Gentoo for having /bin/sash
installed by default. :-)
> mount -o remount,rw /
you probably want to run 'devfsd' at this stage.
> mount /usr/
> emerge baselayout
if mount fa
Thanks to all who assisted. I used a combination of all and this is now
solved! (except for the original problem)
1. Booted install disk
2. mkdir the /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/usr, /mnt/gentoo/home
3. ifconfig stuff for network.
4. mounted above with existing partitions.
5. chrooted to new (old) G
