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On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: |
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> 2010/9/10 Jake Moe<jakesaddress@×××××.com>: |
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>> Hello all, |
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>> |
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>> I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue |
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>> purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the |
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>> Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no |
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>> swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system |
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>> capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes |
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>> in after what I believe is the init process: |
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>> |
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>> |
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>> Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org |
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>> Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 |
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>> |
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>> Press I to enter interactive boot mode |
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>> |
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>> * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Mounting /dev ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Starting udevd ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ |
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>> ok ] |
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>> * Checking root filesystem ... |
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>> fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 |
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>> /dev/sda1: |
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>> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 |
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>> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 |
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>> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock |
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>> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: |
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>> e2fsck -b 8193<device> |
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>> |
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>> * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ |
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>> !! ] |
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>> Give root password for maintenance |
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>> (or type Control-D to continue): |
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>> |
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>> If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows |
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>> /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder |
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>> in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it |
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>> somehow. |
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>> Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be |
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>> appreciated. |
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>> |
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> Have you seen http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ? It's based on |
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> Gentoo, you could check what they did to boot from a usb stick. |
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> |
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> Br, |
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> Maciej Grela |
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> |
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Excellent, thanks for that, I hadn't found it in my previous searches. |
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I'll have a look there. |
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Jake Moe |
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