Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread fei huang
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Norberto Bensa wrote: Mike Markowski wrote: Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller? Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Richard Fish wrote: On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Markowski
Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there in gentoo land. Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generally unhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot. I was confident this would do

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a mkfs /dev/sda1 (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mike Markowski wrote: Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller? Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null pgpnN7lAeIv4t.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Mike Markowski
Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos and missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot. :-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel modules and installed...] I

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mike Markowski wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos and missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot. :-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread fei huang
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right.Through a bad combination of typosand missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot.:-(This is what I did to (try to) recover:# cd /boot# mklost+found # emerge grub[...edited grub.conf...][...recompiled kernel