help for linux n00b.

SiberianX37 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 23

Hi everyone. I have a question for you guys and i thank you in advance for all your answers.
Now, I was installing gentoo 2004.3 according to the handbook, i set up my partitions and filesystems, but then I got tired and went to sleep after downloading the genoot stage tarball. when I tried to boot into gentoo the next day, it got me in as newroot, even though i did everything else in root, it stuck me into the ash shell, which won't let me do anything, including change shells, it told me something about not accessing tty and job control being off, and i can't access the stage that i downloaded nor can i continue with my install. Please help me out. Thank you.

hanoman · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:51 am Post subject:

What was your last action before you went to sleep? Was gentoo compiling something?

More details please

c4 · Guru Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 312 Location: Sweden

Reboot and start from your livecd, and than remount your partitons just as if you where doing a new install. No need to set new filesystems or anything.

If that works, check that your stage is downloaded and that it is complete, md5sums match etc. If all is well, you can just continue from there, chroot and make your way through with the install. This should not have any affects on your gentoo installation.
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SiberianX37 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 23

THe last thing i did before I went to sleep was extract the tarball i downloaded. The problem is when I do put in the livecd and boot, i can't mount the partitions because the ash shell won't let me. what i did though was I downloaded 2005.0 and i tried that, and it logs me in fine as root, into the normal shell so now all works good. so confusing and weird