gentoo linux

[Chris Midkiff]

I got the grub problem fixed, I mis-read the instructions for the name of
the grub config file.  I had menu.1st instead of menu.lst.  That problem
fixed, I was left with a non-functioning system.  I had (stress the HAD)
gentoo installed in 5 partitions, as hinted at in the docs.  I added a /usr,
/share and a /var to the default /boot swap and /.  The docs state: "if you
are setting up Gentoo Linux with a separate /usr or /var, these would get
mounted to /mnt/gentoo/usr and /mnt/gentoo/var, respectively."

I did this (I thought) and the system hapily updated and installed.  I have
now found that the partition that I created for /usr is totally empty.  I
did not see any errors stating that it could not copy files to /usr, and I
hunted around quite a bit and can't see any of the files that should be
there.  Whole partition is just blank. The / part contains a blank /usr
(mount point, really) and the /usr partition is just empty.  The distro
appears to put lots of stuff there (and rightly so) during install, I don't
know what happened to it.

I wiped the machine, set up _just_ the partitions that they recommend, and
am currently re-installing everything.  No loss, the machine was empty when
I started...  Just time.  I'll add the /share partition when I'm done, and I
guess I'll just leave /usr and /var on /.

Anyway, I'll let you all know when I complete the update (it's running
emerge system now) how it turns out.

Chris Midkiff

----- Original Message -----
From: <MBSmith at dstsystems.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: gentoo linux

> The grub examples from the gentoo docs show the kernel command as:  kernel
> /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
>
> The above example assumes the root system is on /dev/hda3, obviously.  Did
> you lay out your file systems like gentoo's exmples, ie. hda1=boot,
> hda2=swap, hda3=root (not that you have to, I'm just trying to understand
> your install)?  I wonder if your kernel command below is looking for
> bzImage in the root of (HD0,0) - is this where your kernel is?
>
> I'm no grub expert, but I just followed the gentoo docs and it worked
> first time, and maybe I got lucky.  Also, re the 'Read Only Filesystem'
> errors, I assume you got the appropriate fs modules (reiserfs, ext3...)
> built into the kernel OK?
>
> Cheers
> Mark Smith
>
>
>
>
>
> "Chris Midkiff" <chris at datacaptech.com>
> Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> 01/30/2002 11:45 AM
>
>
>         To:     <kclug at kclug.org>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: gentoo linux
>
>
> I installed gentoo last night.  All went well, through configuring grub
> (I'd
> be fine if they offered lilo... New tools, same job).  Anyway, when I
> re-booted the system, it came up in grub command mode.  I did a little
> reading, and got the following to load my kernel:
> # kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage
> # boot
>
> The kernel will boot, but refuse to log me on. Gives several 'Read Only
> Filesystem' errors while booting, then when I enter a username, returns
> the
> message:
> /bin/login: Error while loading shared libraries: libshadow.so.o: Cannot
> open shared object file: no such file or directory.
>
> If I <ctl><alt><del> at this point, the system will (eventually) prompt me
> for single user (administrative) mode, and let me login with root
> password.
> The df output shows all partitions mounted, and the mount output shows two
> entries for /proc, neither one mounted, and everything else mounted rw.
>
> To shorten the question, does anyone have enough experience with grub to
> help me out?
>
> Chris Midkiff
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