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On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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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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umm, did I miss a memo? |
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he was trying to fix fstab, which is in /etc, not /boot. |
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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 |
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>>>> can't |
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>>>> boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will |
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>>>> I have |
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>>>> to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I |
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>>>> have to |
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>>>> re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). |
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>>>> 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 |
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>>> another |
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>>> editor if you like. |
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