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 Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject: Accidently Logged out- need login and password |
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What is the login information for the Live CD.
This is my first time installing Gentoo and right when I was supposed to start making my GRUB Configuration file and accidently typed "exit"
What is the login information for the Live Cd?
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The cd enviroment makes its own password each time and it is up to you to change it. Unless you changed it then there is not a way to know... The good new is if you were up to installing grub then you dont have to start over. Just boot the cd again and do the mounting and chroot steps and you should be able to pickup where you left off.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| maletek wrote: | | The cd enviroment makes its own password each time and it is up to you to change it. Unless you changed it then there is not a way to know... The good new is if you were up to installing grub then you dont have to start over. Just boot the cd again and do the mounting and chroot steps and you should be able to pickup where you left off. |
Unfortunatly I don't know enough about Linux to understand what mounting and chroot steps are..... please help me
I have IM if it would be easier
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All you should need to do is this:
1) read and do the part that refers to mounting your partitions
| Quote: | (Activate the swap partition) # swapon /dev/hdax
(Mount the root partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo
(Mount the boot partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo/boot
(Mount the proc filesystem) # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
2) do the part about network setup (if needed)
3) then do the chroot steps
| Quote: | (Chroot into the new environment) # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
(Load the necessary variables) # env-update; source /etc/profile |
These are all in the manual and are well documented so you should not have any issues.
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| maletek wrote: | All you should need to do is this:
1) read and do the part that refers to mounting your partitions
| Quote: | (Activate the swap partition) # swapon /dev/hdax
(Mount the root partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo
(Mount the boot partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo/boot
(Mount the proc filesystem) # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc |
2) do the part about network setup (if needed)
3) then do the chroot steps
| Quote: | (Chroot into the new environment) # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
(Load the necessary variables) # env-update; source /etc/profile |
These are all in the manual and are well documented so you should not have any issues. |
Dude. Thank you. You are my day-and-a-half savier. I thought I had wasted the last 72 hours of my life!!
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Another Question:
I have a strange partitioning scheme and have no idea what to do with it with grub:
/dev/hda1 Windows 98
/dev/hda2 Swap
/dev/hda3 boot
/dev/hda4 root
I just want a simple boot menu with a default of windows timeout of 30 secs and Gentoo Linux and Windows 98 as my two options.
PLEASE HELP A LINUX N00B..... again 
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A simple grub.conf would look like this in your case:
| Code: | timeout 30
default 0
fallback 1
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# For booting GNU/Linux
title Gentoo-2.4.26
root (hd0,2)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda4
title=Windows 98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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