[gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being installed, so i thought to

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nick Smith wrote: sorry i havent been keeping up with the list as much as i should so i dont know if this has been addressed or not. i recently did an emerge -uD on my gentoo laptop, its been several months since this has been done, it said that sysvinit was blocking something from being

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread James Hiscock
you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. --

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:07 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux said: James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP umerged sysvinit. That

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP umerged sysvinit. That means he's missing a pretty important file: /sbin/init. When it can't find /sbin/init, the kernel tries /etc/init, /bin/init, and finally /bin/sh (so that recovery can be attempted). This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP umerged sysvinit. That means he's missing a pretty important file: /sbin/init. When it can't find /sbin/init, the kernel tries /etc/init, /bin/init, and finally /bin/sh (so that recovery can be attempted). This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Calvin Walton
On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i get this ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. Just wondering, do the devices that should be in /dev exist? If

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Calvin Walton wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i get this ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. Just wondering, do the devices that should be in

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Nick Smith
quote who=Bastian Balthazar Bux Calvin Walton wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i get this ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console any ideas? that is all that is in the log file as well. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 6, 2005 5:27 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Bastian Balthazar Bux Calvin Walton wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 4:50 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i tried that and it looked like it was going to work, but i get this ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /dev/console

Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Fish
Mike Owen wrote: On Apr 6, 2005 5:27 PM, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the exact command i need to use to mount both dev and proc? You can mount proc with: mount none -t proc /proc If you are using devfs you can mount dev with: mount none -t devfs /dev And if you