Lost? [solved]

dntwrryboutit · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2012 Posts: 15

Yesterday I made it to part seven of the istallaltion handbook and decided to call it quits for the night at the part of manualy configuring the kernel. So, I shut off my laptop. I don't know if shuting off the computer is not a good thing during this part. When
I booted into the computer today I couldn't find all the files I installed and it wasn't chrooted. So I am just stuck whether I should re -chroot the system or something else?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:42 pm Post subject:

dntwrryboutit,

Mount your filesystems
Mount /proc and /dev
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

Contine as if you had never left the install.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

dntwrryboutit · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2012 Posts: 15

So I tryed re-mouting the proc and dev terminal said they were already mounted. Then I i tryed to chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash and I got chroot failed to run command 'bin/bash': No such file or directory

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:36 am Post subject:

dntwrryboutit,

You need to be a little more precise in your error reporting. In more detail, carry out the following steps from the handbook.

Activating the Swap Partition Code Listing 5.3: Activating the swap partition
Mounting Code Listing 6.1: Mounting partitions
Mounting the /proc and /dev Filesystems Code Listing 1.4: Mounting /proc and /dev
Entering the new Environment Code Listing 1.5: Chrooting into the new environment

If you changed the partition layout when you made your install, you will need to use the partitions you used at that time.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

wlchase · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject:

I had this same issue, not sure what solved it for OP, but I was using disks from a previous installation and had not erased, via mkfs, all the previous files. I finally noticed tar throwing the "exit with previous errors" kinda message, went ahead and rebuilt the fs and all is fine now!

HTH!
Bill