[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





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