Boot off of LiveCD, chroot, start repairing... When I've hosed my system, I go back to the Gentoo Handbook:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml to get into the chroot. Then look in the logs (/var/log/*) for hints... Always a good idea to dispatch-conf, revdep-rebuild, revdep-rebuild. So far I haven't hosed it bad enough to need a reinstall... MySQL upgrade was painful, but the upgrade guide given in the einfo worked perfectly (THANK YOU Doc Team!). HTH, Roy Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
My hole linux box has crashed !!!! I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world.... it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql..... today my hole system is against me.... I think in reinstall the full system .... has any one got a better idea, my backups are unavailable now ....
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