First boot problems

HiddenWolf · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

Hi

I just did my first Gentoo install today. Took a long time.

Now when I rebooted and got to grub, i realised I made a typo.
I can boot to windows, but not to gentoo. I told grub the kernel is on (hd1,3) while it is on hd(1,2)

So I went to the livecd (smp kernel) and tried chroot /mnt/gentoo /sbin/bash
This gives a "directory does not exist" error.

ls /mnt gives 3 folders.
cdrom
gentoo
livecd

gentoo and livecd are empty, accordingly.

What did I do wrong?

All files should be on /dev/hdb3 (hd1,2) and on reiserFS

hitman200ca · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

When you boot back into the live cd you will have to mount your
Gentoo partition

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo -t reiserfs

(I think that is all you need, if not man mount
or add an entry for you drive into /etc/fstab)

Then cd /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub
and edit grub.conf

If /boot is on a separate partition that is the one you should
be mounting. Grub points at where ever the kernel is located
usually /boot as per the install guide.

Good Luck
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HiddenWolf · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

The kernel now boots, but it still hangs, so I've got some tweaking to do.

*grins*