Problems with startup

Morrath · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

I got everything installed. I then rebooted my computer and selected Gentoo in Grub. It loaded a few files and then stopped when it tried to mount something. Here is what I see.

* Mounting proc at /proc... [oops]

* The "mount" command failed with error:

Line 1: mount: Command not found

* Since this is a critical task startup cannot continue.

Then it prompts me to put in my root password or press control-D. When I do it crashes and reboots. What did I do wrong when I installed Gentoo?

I am a bit new to Linux so any help is greatly appreciated!

robet · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:

What stage did you use? You're missing something very important... you'll likely need to boot to the LiveCD and emerge something... maybe coreutils.
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Morrath · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

I used stage2 to install from. I will try emerge coreutils.

EDIT:
Why is it telling me the emerge command is not found?

Sith_Happens · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:

I've seen this problem a lot on the forums where for some reason emerge system leaves out neccessary utils. I think the problem is people are forgetting to run env-update and source /etc/profile when they chroot. The solution however is simple, just chroot from the livecd and emerge system again.
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Sith_Happens · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:

The stage 2 tarball contains an installation of portage, including emerge. If you are using a stage2 tarball, then emerge should be there. Did you chroot bash to /mnt/gentoo and run env-update and source /etc/profile?
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Morrath · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

Morrath · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

Well I just got done doing that and rebooted. I am still getting the same problem though.

Any ideas?

Sith_Happens · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

Perhaps this is a problem with kernel support for your filesystem. Did you format a drive in, say, rieserfs and forget to build kernel support for reiser?
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Sith_Happens · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

This post has been inactive for a while so I'm going to assume it's solved and stop watching it. If so be sure to append [SOLVED] to the topic of your first post. If you need more help just pm me. Adios

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