Re: [gentoo-dev] unable to boot from unpacked systree 20010421

[Ben Lutgens]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:39:04AM +0200, nolon@×××.net wrote:
>Hi list
>I tried to install the sys tree on an spare partition /dev/hda3
>My configuration is as follows
>/dev/hda1 swap		150 MB
>/dev/hda2 other Linux 	1500 MB
>/dev/hda3 gentoo		1500 MB

Sounds to me like you need to do the following from your current install

1: mkreiserfs /dev/hda3
2: mkdir /mnt/gentoo
3: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo

4: tar xvfj sys.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo
5: chroot /mnt/gentoo

If one or any of these fail, mail us again with the exact error messafes.

>
>I was able to unpack the tbz2 file,but I had no luck to chroot
>to this partition.
>When I call chroot it says illegal instruction and nothing happens
>Anyway so I builded a kernel (2.4.3) and modified the entries on
>the bootdisk and also the rootdev with rdev.
>The problem still remains in sofar that the kernel is not able to find
>init, I also tried with the init option (init=/bin/bash) but no help. Then
>I made /dev/hda3 with ext2 ,again with all the necessary steps like
>fstab rdev etc.
>Ah yes I also tried to copy bash to hda3 but still no progress.
>The funny thing is, it did boot from the same floppydisk to my other
>partition (/dev/hda2) and that works.
>I'm a bit lost so maybe someone has any suggestions??
>
>My other system is greenfrog linux with devfs and glibc 2.1.3 gcc
>2.95.2 maybe there is some problem but I wouldn`t know what
>
>Thanks
>
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