On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:25:10PM +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: > > Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say "newbie"... :-) > > > > After you "select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6" do you see a lengthy boot > > process or do you get a command line instantly? > > > > It occured to me that you could somehow be getting to the grub command > > line, which has about a dozen commands... definitely no "emerge", > > "adduser", etc. > > Please don't apologise and do point out anything you think could be > useful! I am a complete newbie to the whole Linux world - been trying to > get this install working afterhours for over a week now. > > To answer your question, there is a lengthy boot process after selecting > the OS. It seems to be doing what it's supposed to (apart from a couple > of warnings). > What's more, other things I emerged while working chrooted from the > install CD are available & working (e.g. dhcpcd). > > Is there anything (config file, directory listing, ???) I could post > here to help the troubleshooting?
Post the results of the following 4 from the commandline mount cat /etc/fstab fdisk -l /dev/hda echo $PATH W -- "Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a telephone company accounts department." - Ford trying to rectify that situation. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 11 days, 20:42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
