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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 22:12, Ed Sutherland wrote: |
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> I went through the entire installation process and forgot to issue the |
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> ybin command so that my Gentoo installation boots from disk. Using my |
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> LiveCD, how do I rescue this -- what are the commands? Thanks! |
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I did a variant of this. As far as I recall, this is how I fixed it: |
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> Yes, a G3 iMac. What are the specific commands? |
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> >> This is what I've tried (and the results): |
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> >> <boot livecd> |
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> >> mkdir /mnt/gentoo |
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> >> mkdir /mnt/gentoo/dev |
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> >> mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
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> >> mount /dev/hda10 <my root partition> |
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> >> chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash |
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> >> ybin |
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> >> "Seems the boot partition hasn't been initialize" (paraphrase) mkofboot |
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> >> "Do you want to create an HFS partition? <y/N>" (I pick "y") "Aborting" |
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Is this what you tried? You may have to use fdisk to set the boot |
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partition up as an Apple Bootstrap partition first. If you did that when |
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formatting, make sure that the path to the boot partition specified in |
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yaboot.conf is still the path you want. I had trouble because the hard |
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drive changed from hda to hdc depending on how I booted. |
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ybin -h is a good thing to try; there are a couple of useful options in |
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there, including one for initial set-up and one for passing in a |
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different path to your boot drive if you need it. The above instructions |
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look basically right, however. You want to be mounting root, not the |
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boot partition. |
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David Chart |
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http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/ |
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