From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GIpRJ-0001ld-6b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:30:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7VGSYXp026837; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:28:34 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7VGPx3B002064 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:25:59 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2006 16:25:58 -0000 Received: from N559P006.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.13.198] by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 31 Aug 2006 18:25:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <44F70DD7.20209@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:27:03 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start References: <20060831155624.16557.qmail@web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060831155624.16557.qmail@web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 7ea336ce-ccc2-44ad-bbe6-9125caa8ec45 X-Archives-Hash: c80c6a8e29bfc0bb58956dacd0d165c1 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list