[quote] OK intrying to deal with the last baselayout update problems I created, I took my running gentoo 1.4 system and inadvertinately (I know this seems impossible to do, and I deserve all the problems I have) dumped my baselayout!. Now all I get is init # when booting. I tried to mount /usr, and /home and all I get is /dev/hda1 doesn't exist, as well as /dev/hdb1. fstab is there in /etc. and df shows all filesystems although the space calculations appear dorked as well. Is there a way to get to emerge and install a baselayout? [/quote]
Your best solution is probably to 1) boot off of your Gentoo installation Cd (or knoppix CD) 2) configure your network interface to talk to your network ( # ifconfig eth0 [yourip] netmask [yourmask] broadcast [your broadcast] # route add -net default gw [your gateway] netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 ) 3) mount your existing installation / partition (e.g # mkdir /mnt/other # mount /dev/[whatever-your-root-partition-is] /mnt/other ) 4) chroot to your / partition ( e.g. # chroot /mnt/other /bin/bash ) 5) emerge baselayout 6) update any ._* files in /etc portage reports 6.5) if you lost configuration info (such as /etc/modules.autoload) you may have to recreate that by hand if unmerging base-layout did in fact delete those files. 7) exit your chrooted environment, unmount the aforementioned partition, eject your CD, and reboot. That should fix your problem. good luck! Jean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
