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On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:23, Stephane Brossier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I
> should run etc-update to merge some files.
>
> I used the "-5" option which automaticall merge the files,
> and it seems it deleted some of my config files such
> as /etc/fstab.
> The result is that I cannot boot gentoo anymore. Pretty bad...

Hehe I got the same problem.

> I guess i missed something with the use of etc-update.
> How should we use that tool?

can't help you there


> Hopefully i can boot a different version of linux and access
> to my config file for gentoo by mounting the partitions.
> I tried to recreate my /etc/fstab but my system cannot boot.
> It complains with the something like:

just use the gentoo cd

> Mount proc at /proc
> The "mount' command failed
> line 14 in /etc/fstab is bad
> [mnent] line 15 in /etc/fstab is bad
> ....
>
> Note 1. I commented the line /dev/hda1 but if i uncomment it
> i get the same problem.
> Note 2. My gentoo is installed on my disk /dev/hdb, but lilo
> is on hda1-- hda is the disk where i have my other version
> of linux. it worked welll before I got this problem with etc-update.

here is my fstab:
proc                    /proc   proc            defaults                        0      
 0
/dev/hdb1       none    swap    sw                              0       0
/dev/hdb2       boot            ext3            noauto, noatime    1       2
/dev/hdb3       /               reiserfs        noatime                 0       1
/dev/hdb4       /home   eiserfs defaults                0       0

hope it helps

> #
> # noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
> # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of
> storage
> # efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
> # switch between notail and tail freely.
>
> # <fs>   <mountpoint>    <type>         <opts>                  <dump/pass>
>
> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
> #/dev/hda1      /boot   ext2            noauto, noatime 1 2
> /dev/hdb2       none    swap            sw              0 0
> /dev/hdb3       /       reiserfs        noatime, notail 1 0        <- This
> is line 14
> /dev/hdb5       /usr    reiserfs        noatime, notail 1 0
> /dev/hdb6       /var    reiserfs        noatime, notail 1 0
> /dev/hdb7       /home   reiserfs        noatime, notail 1 0
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 noauto,ro       0 0
>
> # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
> none            /proc   proc            defaults        0 0
>
> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
>
> none            /dev/sh tmpfs           defaults        0 0
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Can the problem be somewhere else-- maybe another config file
> has been replaced after I ran etc-update?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> S.
>
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