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demon-dante
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 Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: [Newb] cannot stat /dev/SWAP || can't login |
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Hi
I'm trying to install Gentoo on my Laptop. First Linux install ever. 
I think I have 2 problems:
At booting I get the [!!] error msg "Swapon: cannot stat /dev/SWAP: No such file or directory"
After making ~250 MB traffic on this forum I think I have to exchange /SWAP with /hda2 (my swap partition) in the fstab, but I can only mount the fstab from the cd and I dont know how I can reach the fstab from my system 
The second thing is that I cant login in the system itself! I tried to edit the shadow file like in some threads suggested but it didn't work. I read here that I have to chroot into my mounted file system and change the pwd with passwd, but I don't know how to chroot (or why).
I surfed some wikis and faqs but they are obviously not for my brain.
After his I just have to install a gui...
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Keruskerfuerst
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: |
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on console:
su
(password for root)
nano -w /etc/fstab
edit the line
/dev/hda2 swap
save and exit
swapon /dev/hda2
that should do it. |
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mdeininger
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: |
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well, sounds like a b0rked /etc/fstab, really...
boot from the livecd (using the nox option) or the minimal cd, and follow the handbook in chapters 4 and 6 to get into your system from the livecd (i.e. mount and chroot):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap5
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6
once you're inside your system, you can use nano to edit files, like so:
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# nano -w /etc/fstab
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this will start nano and edit the file /etc/fstab
to save and quit nano, hit ctrl-x, then answer y and hit enter.
and, yes, your /etc/fstab should not have any entries like /dev/SWAP or /dev/ROOT and similar, it should be /dev/hdaX (whatever X may be, depending on your configuration)
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