> > 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.
Thanks Nathan. Sounds cool. Have Tomsrtbt downloaded. Trying to figure out how to make the floppy on an Win XP Pro machine. Looks like I need to go find a DOS machine. Thanks for your help, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
