[gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem

[gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem

[Dave Bresson]

Ok, thanks to the new guide that's up, i now know the proper options for
my /boot partition.  However, there seems to be some sort of problem going
on with the directions in the guide, specifically with the configuring the
settings section.  Right after it says to do a 'chroot /mnt/gentoo' you're
to perform the 'env-update' command.  When running 'env-update' i get a
"Error: /mnt/gentoo does not exist!" or some such error.  This of course makes
sense, since that dir is now the root directory, however something tells
me that this *isn't* the way the command is supposed to work (i think).
Is it supposed to do this?  And of course, exiting out of the chroot'ed
shell to run 'env-update' doesn't work b/c then it can't even find the
command.  I've also looked at the python code for env-update in
/usr/sbin/env-update, however i haven't been able to come up with a
solution to this problem.  Any ideas?


thanks,


dave

Re: [gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem

[Achim Gottinger]

Dave Bresson wrote:

> Ok, thanks to the new guide that's up, i now know the proper options for
> my /boot partition.  However, there seems to be some sort of problem going
> on with the directions in the guide, specifically with the configuring the
> settings section.  Right after it says to do a 'chroot /mnt/gentoo' you're
> to perform the 'env-update' command.  When running 'env-update' i get a
> "Error: /mnt/gentoo does not exist!" or some such error.  This of course makes
> sense, since that dir is now the root directory, however something tells
> me that this *isn't* the way the command is supposed to work (i think).
> Is it supposed to do this?  And of course, exiting out of the chroot'ed
> shell to run 'env-update' doesn't work b/c then it can't even find the
> command.  I've also looked at the python code for env-update in
> /usr/sbin/env-update, however i haven't been able to come up with a
> solution to this problem.  Any ideas?

Try in chrooted environment

unset ROOT
env-update

That should work.

achim~

>
>
> thanks,
>
> dave
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Re: [gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem

[drobbins]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:03:31AM -0500, Dave Bresson wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, thanks to the new guide that's up, i now know the proper options for
> my /boot partition.  However, there seems to be some sort of problem going
> on with the directions in the guide, specifically with the configuring the
> settings section.  Right after it says to do a 'chroot /mnt/gentoo' you're
> to perform the 'env-update' command.  When running 'env-update' i get a
> "Error: /mnt/gentoo does not exist!" or some such error.  This of course makes
> sense, since that dir is now the root directory, however something tells
> me that this *isn't* the way the command is supposed to work (i think).
> Is it supposed to do this?  And of course, exiting out of the chroot'ed
> shell to run 'env-update' doesn't work b/c then it can't even find the
> command.  I've also looked at the python code for env-update in
> /usr/sbin/env-update, however i haven't been able to come up with a
> solution to this problem.  Any ideas?

You'll notice that the new install guide does not mention setting the $ROOT
environment variable.  You're having a problem because you setting $ROOT,
which is no longer required with the new install method.

just "unset ROOT" after chroot, and env-update will work.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

[gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)

[John McCaskey]

    So I got the cd to boot now that I have the fixed file, however I have
another little problem.  My hard disks are on a udma100 card and show as hde
and hdg in linux.  The kernel supports the card and when booting off the cd
everything is fine and I fdisked and installed just fine.  I can even boot
ok as grub sees the drives fine.  However, once I am booted I can not get to
them because in /dev I only have up through hdd.  So I can't mount my boot
partition to setup the grub menu file etc.  It seems like this is a simple
problem of adding them to /dev but I don't know how to do that.  If someone
can help me out that would be great.

Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)

[Achim Gottinger]

John McCaskey wrote:

>     So I got the cd to boot now that I have the fixed file, however I have
> another little problem.  My hard disks are on a udma100 card and show as hde
> and hdg in linux.  The kernel supports the card and when booting off the cd
> everything is fine and I fdisked and installed just fine.  I can even boot
> ok as grub sees the drives fine.  However, once I am booted I can not get to
> them because in /dev I only have up through hdd.  So I can't mount my boot
> partition to setup the grub menu file etc.  It seems like this is a simple
> problem of adding them to /dev but I don't know how to do that.  If someone
> can help me out that would be great.
>

Hmm, boot from the cd, mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo, chroot there,
cd to /dev and
then type
>MAKEDEV hde
>MAKEDEV hdg
>

Or another solution add "devfs=mount" to your kernels boot options in the grub
bootmenu. That means you use
the devfs filesystem and devices are generated automatic on demand.

achim~

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Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)

[John McCaskey]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Achim Gottinger" <320095285153-0001@t-online.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)


> John McCaskey wrote:
>
> >     So I got the cd to boot now that I have the fixed file, however I
have
> > another little problem.  My hard disks are on a udma100 card and show as
hde
> > and hdg in linux.  The kernel supports the card and when booting off the
cd
> > everything is fine and I fdisked and installed just fine.  I can even
boot
> > ok as grub sees the drives fine.  However, once I am booted I can not
get to
> > them because in /dev I only have up through hdd.  So I can't mount my
boot
> > partition to setup the grub menu file etc.  It seems like this is a
simple
> > problem of adding them to /dev but I don't know how to do that.  If
someone
> > can help me out that would be great.
> >
>
> Hmm, boot from the cd, mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo, chroot
there,
> cd to /dev and
> then type
> >MAKEDEV hde
> >MAKEDEV hdg
> >
>
> Or another solution add "devfs=mount" to your kernels boot options in the
grub
> bootmenu. That means you use
> the devfs filesystem and devices are generated automatic on demand.
>
> achim~
>
> >
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Thanks for the help guys.

Re: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

(cd /dev && mknod hde b 3 4 && mknod hdg b 3 6)

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "John McCaskey" <jmccaskey1@qwest.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card)


>     So I got the cd to boot now that I have the fixed file, however I have
> another little problem.  My hard disks are on a udma100 card and show as
hde
> and hdg in linux.  The kernel supports the card and when booting off the
cd
> everything is fine and I fdisked and installed just fine.  I can even boot
> ok as grub sees the drives fine.  However, once I am booted I can not get
to
> them because in /dev I only have up through hdd.  So I can't mount my boot
> partition to setup the grub menu file etc.  It seems like this is a simple
> problem of adding them to /dev but I don't know how to do that.  If
someone
> can help me out that would be great.
>
>
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> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
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>