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(I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) |
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I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you |
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new install). |
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So instead of |
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mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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you need |
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mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo |
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where x is 1 or 2 or whichever partition you used for /. |
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HTH, |
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allan |
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At Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:23:41 -0500 Mark <whitetr6@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did |
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> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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> Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls |
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> all I see is boot and lost+found |
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> Did I make a bigger mess than I thought? |
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> On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi> wrote: |
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>> Mark wrote: |
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>> > I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't |
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>> > boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have |
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>> > to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to |
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>> > re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks! |
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>> You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then |
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>> execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another |
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>> editor if you like. |
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