I goofed and now have a problem

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

I have installed Gentoo and get a nice install prompt. I have only just realised that I forgot to compile Ext2 filesystem support into my kernel. I recompiled a fresh kernel with the appropriate support, however I am unable to mount my /boot partition because I get an error saying that Ext2 filesystem is not supported.

I now have a chicken and egg style problem in that I need to mount boot to copy across the new kernel image that will give me the support needed to mount /boot.

How do I rectify this embarasing situation :-)

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Dechah

TUX2k · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 10:09 am Post subject:

use the install cdrom to boot.
Then mout your gentoo system on /mnt/gentoo and your boot on /mnt/gentoo/boot.
and copy your new kernel to /mnt/gentoo/boot

That should solve yout problem.

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

Thanks, I shall logout of Windows and give it a go.

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

I booted from the 1.2 CD rom and got to the # prompt

At the prompt I typed "mount /mnt/gentoo"

and got the error message:

"can't find /mnt/gentoo in /etc/fstab/"

I get the same error message when I try to mount /mnt/gentoo/boot

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

TUX2k · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 11:26 am Post subject:

try

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

Thanks again for taking the time to help
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Dechah

klieber · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:18 pm Post subject:

Also, you may have to specify the file type:

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

Thanks Klieber, unfortuantely it didn't work

My HDD is partitioned thusly:

/dev/hda1 ext2 boot 100MB
/dev/hda2 swap swap 512MB
/dev/hda3 ext3 root 12GB

I booted from the Gentoo 1.2 Network Install CD and got to the # prompt

I typed "mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo" which resulted in the error message"

mount:Mounting /dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo failed: no such file or directory

I get the same message when I type"mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot"

Any other suggestions, or am I looking at a really long re-install?

TUX2k · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 1:30 pm Post subject:

I could also meen that the gentoo dir does not exciste so you may want to try :

dechah · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne

That did it, all fixed, thanks everyone for the help

klieber · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

If you're not using this already, I highly recommend the install guide. It will walk you through, step by step, installing gentoo.

BTW, this file is also available on the install CD -- just open up a new console (alt-f2) and type 'less /install.txt'

--kurt
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