Ok... I just upgraded KDE to 3.1.3 stable finally... I went to load the new kernel. I was running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and upgraded to 2.4.20-gentoo-r7
These are the steps that I took as root. 1> cd /usr/src 2> dir linux linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 3> rm linux 4> ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 linux 5> genkernel * Build completed successfully! * Please specify /boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 and /boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 * when customizing your boot loader configuration files. * A detailed log can be found at /var/log/genkernel.log. Genkernel ran fine... Now I need to goto grub.conf to update it with the new kenel number...... as root... 1> cd /boot 2> dir System.map boot kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 System.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 3> no grub file....what??? 4> ls -la total 3046 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Sep 15 18:36 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 384 Sep 11 17:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 15 17:26 .keep lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 15 18:33 System.map -> System.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 565441 Sep 15 18:33 System.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 15 17:26 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1445404 Sep 15 18:36 initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099879 Sep 15 18:33 kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Ok...so the grub directory is totally gone..so I decide to take a look at /etc/fstab When I look at that file its totall been overwritten as well.... My hair is turning gray now. I've obviously made a choice somewhere along the way that is making me scream..........now... Hopefully I can recover without having to reinstall this for the 3rd time... Can anyone give me some suggestion as to how I can proceed.. I'm assuming that I can just reconfig /etc/fstab and manually create a grub directory and grub.conf file in that directory? Oh,,, when I try and open another shell window and "su" my password keeps on being rejected as well.... What the hell did I do??? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
