Power failure while running genkernel

seedhe · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

I was in the process of a fresh gentoo install and lost mains power while genkernel was running.

So my question is where should I restart from, keeping in mind that I am new to gentoo/linux.

I am using the pentium 4 LiveCD's.

buto · Apprentice Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 155

What stage are you installing from ?
You need to
1)do all the mount /dev/hdxx /mnt/gentoo stuff to mount again the all partitions (4.j. Mounting)
2)chroot (6.a. Chrooting) no need to re-edit all the files you've changed, like make.conf, nor to emerge sync. (what's been done on disks after chrooting is still there
3)run genkernel again (7.d. Alternative: Using genkernel) again no need to re-emerge it

hope it's about right

EDIT: ah yeah, get the network back if you're installing with network, but I guess tou figured that !

seedhe · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

Many thanks buto, that got me up and running again.

I'm struggling with the mount concepts but I'll get there... just a matter of time.

michaelb · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

Please please please consider following this section of the Install Handbook and configure your own kernel instead of using genkernel. Configuring your own kernel is not nearly as hard as you think it will be, and genkernel is seriously broken. I've seen it cause way more headaches for new folks to Gentoo than it solves.

As for remounting what you've already done, just follow the installation handbook from the beginning, but skip over any step that would write anything to your disk. So, for example, you don't want to do fdisk, you don't want to create filesystems and so on. Just follow the steps just like you did the first time for mounting filesystems and turning on the swap space and all that jazz.
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