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goldfish777
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I have moved past that error. you were right about the "sda" thingy, but "gentoo" had to be in the name. anyways I had another error during boot.
this is my latest error message:
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ext2fs_check_if_mount: can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether /dev/hda3 is mounted.
fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda3
/dev/hda3:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock
e2fsck -b 8193 <decive>
* File system couldn't be fixed :( |
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goldfish777
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Also I can login as root for maintenance --bringing me to a prompt like this: "(none) ~ #"
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Raistlin Majere
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Glad to see you got it booted.
edit /etc/fstab and change all "hd" references to "sd"
/dev/hda1 ----> /dev/sda1
/dev/hda2 ----> /dev/sda2
/dev/hda3 ----> /dev/sda3
/dev/hdb1 ----> /dev/sdb1
what's happening is that it can't find your filesystems to run checks on them |
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Also double check your /boot/grub/grub.conf too just to be sure that you use sda...
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goldfish777
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Something is wrong. I cant write in fstab. The directory /mnt/gentoo is gone. /boot/grub/grub.conf doesn't exist. I tried to chmod 755 /etc/fstab but it didn't work. I looked at the output of "mount" and hda1 and hda3 are not mounted. fstab is normal. I am in a repair mode.
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goldfish777
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Happiness!!! I couldn't fix it in the maintenance mode so I stuck the cd in and booted to it. After that I remounted everything and chrooted into my environment. From there I edited fstab and grub.conf. I rebooted and it works. I now boot into a working enviroment! Thanks for the help.
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Mike Hunt
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Awesome, now on to the fun stuff.  |
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Now you need a WM 
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goldfish777
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What is a WM? Windows Manager? what does it do?
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You know, KDE, Gnome or Xfce or whatever desktop you want to use
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goldfish777
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Shortly after posting that question I realized that WM is Window Manager. I currently have Xfce4 up a running smoothly.
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