Finished Install .. Goes Str8 To Grub ..

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

Ok .. i did the stage 3 install yesterday, today i finished it up .. i followed the instructions from the gentoo site all the way through .. after finishing my install, umounting my drives and 'reboot' i rebooted right into grub .. where did i go wrong?

any help is appreciated ..

meteor · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 3:11 pm Post subject:

Try posting your /boot/grub/menu.lst and your system specifics in particular your hard drive setup i.e. what partitions you have, how many hard drives and primary/secondary master/slave settings.

I'm guessing you can't get into your system from grub, so you can try getting in via your install cd. Basicly you just need to follow the install steps until you can access your /boot and /.

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

you guessed right i cant get into anything .. i am installing from cd now ..

i have 1 hard drive .. its hda
BOOT = hda1
SWAP= hda2
ROOT= hda3

i a using ext2 on BOOT = hda1
i am using reiserfs of ROOT= hda3

i will post my /boot/grub/menu.lst .. as soon as i can get there ..

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

am wondering how i can get to boot without breaking anythin ..

can i just chroot ? after i login from the cd

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

ok .. i dont have a menu.lst in '/boot/grub'

what di di do wrong?

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

oh god .. i dont think i am in the correct enviroment ... how far do i have to go and what parts do i skip to get into the correct /root or / ..

RagManX · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 3:44 pm Post subject:

Look over in the Documentation, Tips & Tricks for and you'll see this tip for how to use your Gentoo boot CD to recover from an erroneous install. You probably just need to boot up and link menu.lst to grub.lst. Check the latest installation guide for the command. Unlike most of the rest of the document, the command to perform the link is not printed in a seperate code block. It is just printed inline in the section documenting grub configuration. Hopefully the above link plus the installation guide reference to making the menu.lst link will get you running.

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eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

ok here are the steps i did ..

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

and in '/boot/grub'
there is no menu.lst ... no what did i do wrong ..

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

excellent! .. that did work ... i have other issues now .. devfs .. i had it enable in my kernel .. but it seems because i did not have the EXPERIMENTAL one Y it didnt work out ... so am recompiling my kernel now ...

thanks ..

bkjoegold · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 14 Location: New York

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

Ok .. new problem ..

modprobe: modeprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1
modprobe: modeprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1
modprobe: modeprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1
modprobe: modeprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1

This is all i see when i boot up .. and when i shutdown ..

i have check my modules.conf .. and there is nothing in there i need loading ..

where is this modprobe coming from .. i need the sources to his madness ..

I am online an ready to start emerging things.. but not untill i try to correct this problem .. no CORRECT the problem ..

any help is appreciated ...

pilla · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 4:01 am Post subject:

Check /etc/modules.autoload or also which modules you have loaded (with lsmod)

eltech · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 582 Location: New York

I am not loading any modules at all .. thats what is so weird .. i have not loaded anything using ismod either

TheJester · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

ej
could u let me know how u fixed this problem of
getting NET-PF-1 about 123123333333 times at startup and shutdown. ?

Greetz
TheJester

TheJester · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

enable the Unix domain socket support in the kernel settings did the trick.

sarnold · Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject: not for me

I was getting the same error, but I already *had* unix domain sockets enabled :-(

I figure I must have goofed up on the kernel config somehow, but after 7 tries of messing with the current config, I decided I'll re-emerge the gentoo-sources and start over. I'll find out tonight...

Steve