boot problem - mount: command not found

Yoshinchen · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

hi,
i finished the install guide, but after the first reboot my systems says ->

mount /proc [oops] ... mount: command not found

i have no idea how to solve this problem and need your help

i searched the forums for solutions, but i think they won't work for me, because my problem is different.

thx yoshi

PS: i'm a newbie

thegarbageman · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 4:11 pm Post subject:

Welcome to Gentoo.

it sounds like you missed a step. look in /bin/ and see if "mount" is there.
if not, perhaps you didn't "emerge system" (maybe you only did "emerge -p system")

Does that sound like that may be what happened? (this can be caused by numerous things)

Yoshinchen · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

i can't remember 2 miss something during installation process, but mount is not in /bin/

BUT how to get it to it? Makin an emerge util-linux produces lots of readonly file systems errors

thegarbageman · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 4:27 pm Post subject:

wow. could you post the errors?

you will probably need to run "emerge system", however

Yoshinchen · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 10

if i do an emerge system he says something about raidtools, nothing about mount! But 3 times a "Read-only file system" message appears on the screen and emerge finished with an error --> ebuild did not complete successfully. function src_compile, line 1, exitcode 1, no error messages!
i found a thread in google groups about a missing mount, that said to try emerge util-linux, but this also finished with an read only error

some threads in this forum say to use the installation cd as a rescue disk, but i dont know how to do this and how to mount which disk and so on...

yoshi

thegarbageman · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 4:45 pm Post subject:

Well, it sounds like you *did* miss a step. possibly a few.

Sounds to me like you need to start from scratch. And read the directions a little more carefully.

rac · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject:

You might want to look at /boot keeps mounting as vfat and Windows won't leave about the read-only issue.
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metalhedd · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 3:48 am Post subject:

rac, I'll second that. I was getting the read only errors when trying to emerge system, and when trying to Untar the Stage 2 tarball. it would stop as soon as it tried to write something to /boot (the vfat mounted ext2 partition) and wouldn't finish extracting the rest of the system, including mount. Follow the directions in the thread that rac linked to (/boot keeps mounting as vfat) and try emerging system again.

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axnotizes · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Posts: 8

use gentoo installation cd to boot.
set up network (i.e. net-setup)
chroot to your gentoo installation root.
emerge util-linux

this should give you mount and passwd and stuff.

this post might be a little late. But just for information sake.