menu.lst empty?!

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

I am finishing my first install of gentoo and after rebooting I got nothing but a grub prompt>

I booted from cd, mounted dirs and chrooted /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash. Then I made a symbolic link from grub.conf to menu.lst as in the install guide but I got an error saying

"file already exists"

I used nano -w to edit grub.conf - everything fine but when I open menu.lst it comes up blank!! I entered everything in just like the grub.conf but when I go to write it says that there is no such file or directory. I can modify grub.conf just fine. but menu.lst will not save. They are listed in the same directory.

How do I fix it?

rac · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 12:34 am Post subject:

To be sure of exactly what the current status is, what is the output of "ls -l" on the directory in question?
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RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

When I "ls -l" the directory all the files are listed as "-rw-r--r--" but the menu.lst listing is "lrwxrwxrwx" and the filename says:

menu.lst -> /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf

I made a link before I chrooted - right? How do I undo my wrongdoing?

rac · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 12:54 am Post subject:

OK, that's fine. cd to wherever this directory is, and:

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

That did it! Thanks VERY much!

By the way, this whole thread was started and answered within 45 minutes! Awesome forums!