-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- gnuPG key: ID 915B0745 at http://pgp.mit.edu/ http://www.fribyte.uib.no/~svein/PublicKey.asc Key fingerprint = 0123 B179 0994 F5C7 12D3 F253 E0AA 6A67 915B 0745 Registered Linux User #319622 'The maths is easy,' said Chaos. 'AH? WELL, MATHS', said Death, dismissively. 'GENERALLY I NEVER GET MUCH FURTHER THAN SUBTRACTION.' ____________________________________________________ Svein Harald Soleim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/LB/g4KpqZ5FbB0URAtCfAJ4sK4XURPi19ouZqV+RIZmCPGTq6ACeNkiq VqxNTw0e9R8HHiQpKrxyR5M= =zsk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
