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On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I |
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> Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is |
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> Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos |
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> ... So I tried it using the grub console |
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> >root (hd0,4) |
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> >kernel (hd0,4)/ --> and when I tab here I cant list the content. |
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> So I used the live CD and chrooted to the installed environment . there |
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> I realized that I don't have any files for my hdd in the /dev/ folder |
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> ... Is this the issue... Please advise me . Cuz I went trough the |
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> installation twice .., |
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no. This is normal. /dev is populated by udev. If you chroot from a livecd, |
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you need to bind mount dev to your chroots dev first. |
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And there is no reason to redo the installation. Grub is sometimes REALLY |
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annoying to setup. But usually it works as long as you are staying close to |
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the tutorial in info grub. |
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