I screwed up

[galenjr]

I enabled some windows partition thing in my kernel adn now i get a kernel panic. I could fix it if i could boot. The liveCD wont boot on my ocmputer i had to install with knoppix. Anyone know if/how i can boot up with knoppix and recompile my kernel? I'd try it myself but im afraid ill screw it up more. HELP im scared. =[

[Tsonn]

If you boot with knoppix, you can chroot into your gentoo setup like you did during installation. That'll let you recompile the kernel.

[steveb]

• boot with knoppix
• after knoppix is booted, lood whatever driver you need to get to your root partition
• after that make a mountpoint for gentoo (mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo)
• mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo
• mount your boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot
• mount proc to /mnt/gentoo/proc (mount -t proc -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc)
• mount /dev to /mnt/gentoo/dev (mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev)
• chroot to gentoo (chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash)
• update your environment variables (env-update)
• source the profile (source /etc/profile)
• change to your kernel directory (cd /usr/src/linux-<your-kernel-ver>)
• start menuconfig (menuconfig)
• do whatever change you need to do
• save and exit your kernel configuration
• compile the kernel
• install the kernel (don't forgett to copy it to /boot and change lilo or slilo or grub or whatever boot loader you use)
• exit from the chroot (exit)
• umount the devices (umount /mnt/gentoo/boot ; umount /mnt/gentoo/dev ; umount /mnt/gentoo/proc ; umount /mnt/gentoo)
• exit from knoppix (reboot)
• take out the knoppix cd
• start your gentoo again

[galenjr]

alright thanks guys i wanted to make sure i wasnt gonna screw it up more. from now on im gonna have 2 kernels in grub one that works adn the testing one. =]. thanks again. <3

[galenjr]

thank you steveb your directions worked great <3