From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MERH2-0001W1-7i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CA6CE045E; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D333E045E for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D163F64143 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.922 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.922 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.323, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LQAajrjYFbod for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D82C64240 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MERGm-0005su-1T for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:24 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:24 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:07:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:07:18 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <20090610082143.151fb213@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090610162731.10c36f67@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGzxE3H187Wx92Nve3SgRvfjnow= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cb2a4e5d-7640-46f7-ad1e-3e9d7324e0a1 X-Archives-Hash: 34e3eec18c900d9d64b35a005be47f3f Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has >> > genlop installed, you can get a list with >> > >> > genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log >> >> Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to list >> quickly' was having to boot from install media remount several >> partitions onto /mnt/gentoo, then chroot etc etc. > > You only need to mount the partition containing /var and you don't need > to chroot. Yeah unless I want to use tools that are not available on (minimal) install media but are available on my installed os. But anyway... just rebooting with install media and getting to the partitions is most of it... but done now and need no more comment.