Removed one package to much, need help chrooting [Solved]

[MilkSjeik]

Hi,

I removed to much from my gentoo system when trying to update to the 2005 version.
I did a clean and thought (even with the warning), that devfs wasn't used anymore on my system.
Wrong offcourse, my system now hangs at boot. I think the problem is solved when I can emerge this package again on my system.

But, what is the best way to chroot into my system? Can I still use the 2004.3 boot cd? Or is it better do download the new one? And after it's booted what commands do I use?

$ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo (I think sda3 is my / dir)
$ chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
$ env-update
$ emerge devfs

Or isn't live this easy? I had a try yesterday, but I failed to chroot...
Also when I browsed /mnt/gentoo, my home directory was empty. Is it over-rulled by the boot cd /mnt/gentoo folder?
So even if I would succeed in my chrooting attempt, is it then enough to emerge my package?

Milky

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi, MilkSjeik.
Before you chroot you could try to run fdisk and ask for you partition info using the "p" command. This is jst to be sure. Also I would think that you are prety safe with the old CD. Just make sure that you following the handbook for the chrooting. You need /mnt/gentoo. /mnt/gentoo/boot and /mnt/gentoo/proc.
If it's not gonna work you could try and burn the latest CD

Thank you.

[MilkSjeik]

Worked: