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ariejan
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Joined: 01 Jun 2002
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 Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2002 10:22 am Post subject: System not booting: mkdir -p /mnt/.init.d |
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After I got an Input/Output error on removing /usr/portage/distfiles/xmms.tar.gz, I booted from the Gentoo CD, and e2fsck -yv my root partition.
According to the report, everything b0rked, is fixed now, the fs is clean.
So, I happily reboot my Gentoo system, to find it not working anymore!
Very fast I can see a message come by, before my computer reboots.
| Quote: | | mkdir -p /mnt/.init.d |
So, I boot from CD again, mount my root partition under /mnt/gentoo, and run the mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/.init.d command.
Reboot, but still, the same error!!
How can I get my system back working?? I just comiled X and KDE, which took quite a while, and I don't like losing it all now.
Any help is very much appreciated. |
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lx
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Joined: 28 May 2002
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2002 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: System not booting: mkdir -p /mnt/.init.d |
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| ariejan wrote: | | So, I boot from CD again, mount my root partition under /mnt/gentoo, and run the mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/.init.d command. |
I think you ment to say you have tried mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/mnt/.init.d
Gentoo mounts a shm (memory disk) on this directory to store information related to the boot scripts, so it's very important and the system can't run without it.
Some ideas,
I think you use a ext2 partition, because you used e2fsck. If your using ext3, then maybe somethings wrong in the journal file.
Completly remove /mnt directory and remake the dirs it contained.
Maybe the problem lies somewhere else, but you can't see it during bootup, well first check the /mnt/.init.d dir, if it exists and if you can remake it. or cd into it, maybe something terrible happend to your harddisk or filesystem.
Hope you can fix it, lX
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