Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:01:59 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks to me quite funny. It seems continue endlessly. boot was > symlink to "." that is perfectly normal. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I have to run another round again wiping out the complete HD. Yeah, I think so... Another thing, what did you mean "...Use whatever name you feel is appropriate for your kernel choice and remember it as you will need it later on when y

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, > On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ran > > # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot > > boot -> . > > grub > > lost+found > > Well, this is why you cannot boot. You do not have a kernel image in > /boot. > > Are you actually _following_ the guide that you posted a link to > ori

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ran # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot boot -> . grub lost+found Well, this is why you cannot boot. You do not have a kernel image in /boot. Are you actually _following_ the guide that you posted a link to originally, because you seem to have missed[1]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, Further to my late posting, after mounting # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot Ran # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot boot -> . grub lost+found # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot boot -> . grub lost+found # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/boot boot -> . grub lost+found # ls

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/31/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grub started but ending at; root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs Partition type 0x83 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 Error 15:File not found. Press any key to contiue Normally there is a symlink from /boot/boot ->

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, After entering chroot environment re-installed grub; # cat << EOF | grub > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) EOF Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Exited chroot and umount everythings. Rebooted PC. Grub starte

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/31/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edited /etc/fstab as follows; /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2 Does this filesystem contain a grub directory with stage2, menu.lst (or grub.conf), etc? What does grub/{menu.lst,grub.conf} contain? # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard and folks, Further to my late posting, tried again still failed. Steps performed as follows; After activating lv, vg, mounting device, partitions, etc.; # cd /mnt/gentoo # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev # chroot ./ ./bin/bash All w/o complain

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Richard, Tks for your advice. > On 8/31/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After activating lv, mounting all devices, etc., coming to; > > # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc > > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev > > # env-update > > -/bin/bash:env-update:command not found. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Richard Fish
Because it's confusing. Why shouldn't I top post? On 8/31/06, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After activating lv, mounting all devices, etc., coming to; # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev # env-update -/bin/bash:env-update:command not found.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jarry and folks, Tks for your advice. Booting with a LiveCD: My problem booting with Knoppix5 is it does not support LVM, vgscan, vgchange, etc. not available. I can only boot with "Gentoo install-amd64-minimal-2006.0" After activating lv, mounting all devices, etc., coming to; # mount -t pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:27:03 +0200, Jarry wrote: Replying here because I didn't get the original: > Stephen Liu wrote: > > > * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating. > > * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. > > * end * > > # find /etc -iname '._cfg_*'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

2006-08-31 Thread Jarry
Stephen Liu wrote: * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. * end * # find /etc -iname '._cfg_*' No printout. Can't find the config files to be updated. Try: # find /etc -iname '._cfg*' 2) # grep -v rootfs /pro