[Sussex] Bad bad bad.
John D
big-john at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Feb 9 13:25:19 UTC 2004
Paul Morris wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Angelo
>
> Try this
>
> start up using the install disk
>
> then mount the / partition as /mnt/gentoo
> on my machine this is
> # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo
>
> if you need to change the kernel then mount the boot partition
> on my machine
> # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot
>
> then run chroot and update the environment variables
>
> # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> # env-update
> # source /etc/profile
>
> When you've finished making changes
>
> # exit
> # cd /
> # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
> # umount /mnt/gentoo
> # reboot
>
So, to be able to do this, as I've got mandrake installed as well as
gentoo, will I need to edit my fstab as well? or will I be able to boot
my gentoo install by just including the version and initrd info in my
lilo.conf ?
regards
John D
More information about the Sussex
mailing list