On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:00:42AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for your advice. > > >>The problem happened after 'emerge -u > >>world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same > >>trap. > >> > >>Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I > >>am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as > >>USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I > >>am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? > >> > >> > >You should boot from the original live-cd, mount /dev/hda1 (or whatever is > >your root device) to /mnt > > > >for example, if root is hda1 > > > >mount /dev/hda1 /mnt > > > > > Booting up Gentoo box with CD1 but I was not allowed to mount without > knowing the FS > > fdisk -l > only showing 'linux' > > cfdisk /dev/hda3 > showing > FATAL ERROR: can't open disk drive > press any key to exit > > IIRC at time of installation I selected 'reiserfs' > > Kindly advise how to find it out. TIA >
You need `cfdisk /dev/hda` it will list all partitions on the disk and the fs type. Also, your clock is very much in the future and throwing off mail sorting, is there anything you can do about that? Cheers, -- Tom Wesley
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