[Sussex] Gentoo, ohhh Pooh!

[Pablo]

>I lovingly followed the instructions for a stage1 tarball of Gentoo...
>I finally got to a reboot, and now its just rebooting continuosly...
>

I had the same problem with Gentoo, in my case it was caused by my 
having built the kernel for the wrong processor.

>Assuming that I use the CD to boot into the CD filesystem then I can
>presumably mount /dev/hda1 and get into it...
>
once you've booted from the CD
mount your root and boot partitions as /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/boot 
respectively
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile


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Paul Morris