From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxFWd-0003Oy-TT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:36:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4917E027C; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA37E027C for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 06:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 37F4421C864 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:35:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228B621C85F for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:35:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 38529377 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:35:11 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot my installed gentoo system - Please help Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:35:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.4r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811040735.00529.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 7fbd6b9f-a1cc-4e16-8c1d-83d96cc26d4e X-Archives-Hash: 0983210d4a4cb65917cd57810f7df986 On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: > Hi > I am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I > Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is > Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos > ... So I tried it using the grub console > > >root (hd0,4) > >kernel (hd0,4)/ --> and when I tab here I cant list the content. > > So I used the live CD and chrooted to the installed environment . there > I realized that I don't have any files for my hdd in the /dev/ folder > ... Is this the issue... Please advise me . Cuz I went trough the > installation twice .., no. This is normal. /dev is populated by udev. If you chroot from a livecd, you need to bind mount dev to your chroots dev first. And there is no reason to redo the installation. Grub is sometimes REALLY annoying to setup. But usually it works as long as you are staying close to the tutorial in info grub.