[Sussex] Bad bad bad.

[Angelo Servini]

Hello Paul,

Sunday, February 08, 2004, 4:47:34 PM, you wrote:

PM> On Sunday 08 February 2004 16:28, Angelo Servini wrote:
>>
>>   How do I recover from this?  I dont have a rescue disk.  Only the
>>   original Gentoo install disks I bought.
>>
>>   If someone can talk me though the steps necessary to recover, I
>>   would appreciate their help.

PM> Angelo

PM> Try this

PM> start up using the install disk 

PM> then mount the / partition as /mnt/gentoo
PM> on my machine this is
PM> # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo

PM> if you need to change the kernel then mount the boot partition
PM> on my machine
PM> # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot

PM> then run chroot and update the environment variables

PM> # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
PM> # env-update
PM> # source /etc/profile

PM> When you've finished making changes

PM> # exit
PM> # cd /
PM> # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
PM> # umount /mnt/gentoo
PM> # reboot


Ta mate yer a pal.

What do I do tho. if I have to recompile/emerge?

-- 
Best regards,
 Angelo                            mailto:angelo at servini.co.uk