first boot after install

rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: first boot after install

I finnished installing and rebooted. Grub came up fine. I selected the only
kernel available. Initalization begins. I then get:
Mounting proc at /proc ...
The "mount" command failed with error: line1: mount: command not found
I'm not sure where to go from here.
Also the last line asks Give root password for maintenence or type Control-D for normal startup. What is the root password for maintetence?

zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

Strange if you do not have mount which is essential in Linux installation... It normally sit in /bin/mount...
Give passwd for root and you will be hopefully dropped to console to repair what you have done wrongly... Try this and look for mount...

rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

passwd didn't work. Neither did the password that I used durring the install. Any other suggestions?

zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

Weird, cuz it's not problem with /proc, but mounting it... It can be done manually, but without mount?

I'll look for similar problems...

rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I'v been working on installing gentoo since aug 04. This is the furtherest that I have gotten. I don't know anyway to solve this except
to reinstall and I don't want to do that again. This is around the 30th time that I have installed this os.

zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

WOW! That should not happen... What stage, proc, etc? Did you chose to use a correct CD? Always the same error? What Gentoo 'version"?

progosaurus · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: The Wirral

I have seem some wierd problems when the grub.conf file is broken and the root partition is not mounted.
e.g. a spelling mistake in the kernel line when specifying root=/dev/hda_whatever

Perhaps you could post a copy of your /boot/grub/grub.conf ?
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rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

Back in aug I was using a stage1 2004.2. I was never able to get it installed. When 2004.3 come out I tried it. But the installation
instructions were incorrect. Now the instructions have changed I decided to try gentoo again. I'm using a stage1 2004.3 liveCD install
on a sager8790 3.4GHz laptop w/dual 7200rpm 60GBHD, 1GB ram 9800 Ati video.

rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject:

progosaurus wrote

progosaurus · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: The Wirral

that's what I meant - copy it to here.

if you are unsure how to do that easily:

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

then highlight the text with the mouse - click and drag over it.

Then click in the reply window for the forum,
then click with the middle button (or both left and right buttons simultaneously)
and that should "paste" the selected text into the message.

Or type it out ....... :-)

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rjw8703 · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:27 pm Post subject:

I'm using two computers. One for getting info off these forums and the other for installing.

progosaurus · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: The Wirral

You could use ssh to control the system-under-development from your networked computer, and cut&paste between windows.

But I guess you might be some way from knowing how to do that?

So copy it - it cant be very big .... :lol:

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rjw8703 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

default 0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=kernel-number1-12.02.2004
root (hd0,4)
kernel /kernel-number1-12.02.2004 root=/dev/hdg2
How's this?

nyawb · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Location: planet claire

I have just finished installing gentoo and am getting the error message,

"mount /proc

the mount command failed with error: line 1: mount: command not found"

upon reboot.

am using yaboot, gentoo v.2004.3, on a mac-ppc G3 w/768Mb RAM, 40Gb IDE/ATA hd.
I have done a Stage 1 install with LiveCD.
I can reboot the system with LiveCD, mount the file system, look at files and directories, etc -the settings in fstab seem to be correct, but after reading the previous posts, I checked and do not have a Grub directory or grub.conf under /boot -and don't recall grub being mentioned in the install outline.

Suggestion greatly appreciated,
TIA

I am relatively new to Gentoo and Linux in general, but have been reading a LOT as I work through this

rjw8703 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:50 am Post subject:

I also noticed that I don"t have a /bin/mount

progosaurus · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: The Wirral

rjw8703 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:24 am Post subject:

Yes I know thats weird but it is correct. This laptop has a 7 in 1 cardreader and a promise ide card. The dvdr is on ide0 master and the cardreaders take up hdb c d f with the two harddrives on the promese card. That leaves hde and hdg open. fdisk confirms this. fstab is correct also, I have checked it and double checked it. That is not the problem. Anyhow I have started over again using the developers method using stage1 and nptl found in documentation tips and tricks section. I hope this method works.

progosaurus · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 29 Location: The Wirral

In other installations of grub I find /boot/grub/device.map
It contains stuff like
(hd0) /dev/hda

to tell grub which devices to use for particular (names).

I don't see this in my gentoo system, so now I am confused.
How does grub know that, on your system, (hd0) is hdg?

Can anyone else clarify that?
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rjw8703 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

Actually hde5 is hd(0,4) and hdg2 is hd(1,1).

rjw8703 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:57 am Post subject:

Do you know if scripts/bootstrap.sh -resume or scripts/bootstrap.sh --resume is the correct command to resume bootstrap?

zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

bootsprap -h for help - you'll see it there.

I see you double checked whether the partition numbers (hdg, etc.) are correct. What I would do is to do a raw copy of the /bin/mount to /bin/mount in your new Gentoo installation. Simply boot The LiveCD for your architecture, mount your main partition and