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On Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:57:37 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process |
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> >> when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs. Is there a way to |
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> >> bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer will complete booting and I |
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> >> can make sure I've gotten everything that I want off of it before I wipe |
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> >> it?> |
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> > Probably the easiest way would be to download the gentoo boot CD or the |
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> > LiveCD of another Linux distro, boot the computer w/ the LiveCD, mount |
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> > the hard drive, and see if there's anything you need that way. |
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> > Once you're booted from a LiveCD, you could also chroot into your Gentoo |
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> > install and prevent MySQL starting on boot with OpenRC/systemd if you |
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> > wanted to reboot from Gentoo and look at your files from Gentoo. |
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> > Alec |
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> I've downloaded the Gentoo Live CD and managed to mount the hard drive |
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> on my computer. However, I can't figure out how to get any files that I |
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> want off the computer. I put a blank CD in the drive, but it won't let |
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> me write to it. I've also tried using a USB hard drive that I have, but |
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> it won't let me mount it. I've never actually used a Live CD for |
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> recovery purposes so, I'm at a bit of a loss here. The second |
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> suggestion would be okay, but I don't know how to do that. |
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> Colleen |
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You don't mention what commands you tried and what was the output. |
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In any case, to mount a USB drive which is probably more versatile than the |
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limited space of a CD: |
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1. Create a directory to mount your USB device under: |
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mkdir /mnt/myusb |
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2. Check dmesg to find out what the USB drive is recognised as, by the kernel. |
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dmesg | tail |
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3. Mount it (assuming it was recognised as '/dev/sdb1'): |
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mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/myusb |
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4. Mount desired directories and copy stuff over, excluding any subdirectories |
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you're not interested in, e.g.: |
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mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/home/colleen |
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rsync -av --progress --safe-links --exclude={".cache/*",".gvfs/*",".local/ |
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share/gvfs-metadata/*","/lost+found"} /mnt/gentoo/home/colleen/ /mnt/myusb |
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Check you've copied over successfully what you wanted, then unmount the USB |
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and shutdown the PC (unless you want to wipe its hard drive first). |
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5. sync && umount /dev/sdb1 |
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An alternative approach would be to set a root user passwd, start sshd, then |
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copy the files over the LAN to another PC using rsync, or scp. |
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If you get any problems please be more specific on what action you took and |
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what was the error printed out. |
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HTH. |
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