On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:27:37AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > That's the hard way! > > I agree!! > > > > > There are some good rescue distros out there - one that's floppy-based: > > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > Downloading now. > > > > > and some that are CD-based - if you can burn CDs from your Windows > > installation: > > > > http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2/ > > Couldn't I possibly use the Gentoo 3 Stage CD and do pretty much the same > thing? Or are there tools on Tom's disk that are not on the CD?
It's a lot less setup - boot off the rescue media and go. Gentoo stage 3 isn't built for use as a rescue disk. > > Boot one of those, mount and chroot to your linux partition, and you can > > start cleaning things up. > > MOST IMPORTANT! Can you explain just a bit about why I'm chroot-ing when I > do this? I don't understand chroot at all. If it's not too much typing, give > me a few commands to sort of start the flow. Tom's is a very thin Linux (one floppy, after all!). By chrooting to your own root disk, you're putting yourself into your installed Gentoo environment - albeit running Tom's kernel instead of the one you built. Let's say your root disk is /dev/hda3 and you're /boot disk is /dev/hda4. I think that Tom's provides a /mnt directory... so do this: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/boot (and any other things you need to mount). Then: chroot /mnt and you'll be in the environment you built - with all the commands (like grub) that aren't in Tom's environment. From there, you can start repairs. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
