Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start

[Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>]

Hi Jarry and folks,

Tks for your advice.

Booting with a LiveCD:
My problem booting with Knoppix5 is it does not support LVM, vgscan,
vgchange, etc. not available.  I can only boot with "Gentoo
install-amd64-minimal-2006.0"

After activating lv, mounting all devices, etc., coming to;
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
# env-update
-/bin/bash:env-update:command not found.

It did happen in my previous rounds.  Other command such as "emerge"
also found missing compelling me to wipe out the HD and to start again.
 Any suggestion.  TIA


Another problem I forgot to mention in my previous posting is;
/lib/modules
was missing

# ls -al /lib | grep modules
did not find it.


Problem about switching consoles.  After "chroot" I can't read online
manual.  Therefore I have to press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+F2 switching to another
console.  (I suppose the working console is [Ctrl]+[Alt]+F4).  But
after switching back to the working console all the work disappeared. 
It did happen occassionally but not always.  Any advice?  TIA.

B.R.
SL


--- Jarry <jarry@gmx.net> wrote:

> Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
> >  * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating.
> >  * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
> > * end *
> > # find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'
> > No printout.  Can't find the config files to be updated.
> 
> Try:
> # find /etc -iname '._cfg*'
> 
> > 2)
> > # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
> > -
> > cursor hanging there
> 
> Why doing this??? You should edit fstab, not mtab...
> 
> > # grub install /dev/hda
> > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
> > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
> > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
> 
> No wonder, see previous remark...
> 
> > 4)
> > # cat /etc/fstab
> 
> That is just example which does not correspond with your layout...
> 
> > On reboot only a black screen displayed.  Please advise how to fix
> the
> > problem.  TIA
> 
> Boot livecd, mount partitions, correct errors...
> 
> hth,
> Jarry
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