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From: Stephen Liu <satimis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:54:06
Message-Id: 20060901065005.85383.qmail@web35211.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start by Richard Fish
1 Hi Richard,
2
3 After entering chroot environment re-installed grub;
4
5 # cat << EOF | grub
6 > root (hd0,0)
7 > setup (hd0)
8 EOF
9
10 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p
11 (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
12
13
14 Exited chroot and umount everythings. Rebooted PC.
15
16 Grub started but ending at;
17 root (hd0,0)
18 Filesystem type is ext2fs Partition type 0x83
19 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2
20 Error 15:File not found.
21 Press any key to contiue
22
23
24 Restarted PC and entered chroot environment again. Found
25 /usr/src/linux file missing. It should be symbolic-linked to -->
26 linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7
27
28
29 Failed to re-run
30 # USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
31 because "emerge" command not found.
32
33
34 Further discovery: new /etc/fstab
35 tmpfs /newroot tmpfs rw 0 0
36 /dev/hdd /newroot/mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
37 /dev/loop/0 /newroot/mnt/livecd squashfs ro 0 0
38 proc /newroot/proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
39 sysfs /newroot/sys sysfs rw 0 0
40 udev /newroot/dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
41 devpts /newroot/dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
42 cachedir /newroot/mnt/livecd/lib64/splash/cache tmpfs rw 0 0
43 tmpfs /newroot/mnt/livecd/lib64/splash/tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
44 tmpfs /newroot/mnt/livecd/lib64/firmware tmpfs rw 0 0
45 tmpfs /newroot/mnt/livecd/usr/portage tmpfs rw 0 0
46 usbfs /newroot/proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
47 /dev/hda2 / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
48 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 0
49 /dev/vg/usr /usr ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
50 /dev/vg/home /home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
51 /dev/vg/var /var ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
52 /dev/vg/opt /opt ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
53 /dev/vg/tmp /tmp ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
54 none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
55 udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
56 * end *
57
58 Would it be the result of previously running;
59 # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/fstab
60
61
62 Tks
63
64
65 B.R.
66 SL
67
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69
70
71 --- Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
72
73 > On 8/31/06, Stephen Liu <satimis@×××××.com> wrote:
74 > > Edited /etc/fstab as follows;
75 > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
76 >
77 > Does this filesystem contain a grub directory with stage2, menu.lst
78 > (or grub.conf), etc? What does grub/{menu.lst,grub.conf} contain?
79 >
80 > > # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/fstab
81 >
82 > Um...you mean ">/etc/mtab", right? Otherwise your fstab is going to
83 > contain things that are not really necessary, like usbfs and sysfs
84 > filesystems....
85 >
86 > Anyway, this step is really not even necessary even with mtab, as
87 > Gentoo will fix it when you boot.
88 >
89 >
90 > > Still failed, only a black screen with 2 "!" scatering on it.
91 > Neither
92 > > "grub>" displayed.
93 >
94 > Did you install grub? If so, did you use grub-install or my previous
95 > instructions? What output did you get from that? I guess try
96 > re-installing grub.
97 >
98 > -Richard
99 > --
100 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
101 >
102 >
103
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