first install, accidentally screwed up

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p3nguin · Post by **p3nguin** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:49 am

i think im fucked, its my roomates first installation of gentoo, he accidentially made a symbolic link /boot that points to . Did he overwrite all contents of /boot?

and if so how can he get all of the contents back?

p3nguin · Post by **p3nguin** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 8:04 am

k, i figured out to unlink it, but now /boot is gone
Do i have to re-extract it from the tarball, and recompile the kernel then?

To · Post by To » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:50 am

Well never had to fix something like that.
First you only deleted the dir, but you hadn't the /boot mounted? Then it's ok you only have to mkdir boot and that's it.
If you deleted /boot mounted... well you erased all contents of /boot... Lets see If this helps.
1. get a stage3 for example, decompress on /tmp or something and see if you have any files over /tmp/boot , copy them back to /boot.
2. recopile your kernel and copy the boot image to /boot
3. remerge your boot loader and set it up again ( guess you only need this for grub .. )

Tó

Pete_Keller · Post by **Pete_Keller** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:13 pm

p3nguin,

OK, was your /boot mounted at the time?

If not, just type mkdir /boot, and you are fixed.

Pete

p3nguin · Post by **p3nguin** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:06 pm

well unforunetly it was mounted. Now all that exists in boot are grub and lost+found. The boot folder is completely gone. I have to mess around with re extracting it from the tarball. Thanks for your guys help.