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Logomachist
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Location: PA, USA
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 Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:15 am Post subject: How did I break my Internet access in chrooted Gentoo? |
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Hey,
I've been chrooting into my Gentoo OS from a USB drive while I've been trying to set KDE on Gentoo. Right now I only have the CLI on Gentoo.
At one point I accidentally hit a key combination that closed the terminal window. When I opened a new window I wasn't in the chrooted environment anymore so I tried to mount my partitions again and chroot back into the Gentoo OS:
| Code: | sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/gentoo
sudo mount /dev/sda5/ /mnt/gentoo/boot
sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/gentoo/opt
sudo mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/gentoo/var
sudo mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/gentoo/usr
sudo mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
sudo mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
sudo mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
sudo chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" |
However when I ran the above it said the partitions were already mounted and when I attempted the chroot part it switched from using "Microknoppix / #" as the prompt to using "(chroot) Microknoppix / #" as the prompt. It also knocked out my Internet access in the chrooted environment, which is the important part (I still had Internet access in the Microknoppix USB drive I was booting from). I rebooted the computer and entered Gentoo normally. I had Internet access there.
I rebooted into Microknoppix and entered the chrooted Gentoo environment again. I still no Internet access. I googled and found that I could get my Internet access back by running:
| Code: | | sudo mount --bind /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf |
and this has worked flawlessly since but I didn't need to do this before accidentally closing the terminal window and I'm kind of curious about what is going on. What did I do to break my Internet access in the chrooted Gentoo environment in the first place and what does "sudo mount --bind /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf" do to fix things? Is there a better, more permanent solution to the Internet access problem? |
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freke
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Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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Location: Somewhere in Denmark
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:47 am Post subject: |
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The Handbook says to copy over over the DNS-info (resolv.conf) before chrooting, sounds like you didn't do that originally:
Chapter 6 - Code Listing 1.3
| Code: | (The "-L" option is needed to make sure we don't copy a symbolic link)
# cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ |
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Roman_Gruber
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Location: Austro Bavaria
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Basically it is always the same
lspci / insmod / lsmod (you need the proper modules loaded for your network devices)
man ifconfig
man dhcpcd
if you use wireless you may need wpa_supplicant with a correct /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for your router
You may check the handbook on how to configure the network. |
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