(I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.) I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you new install).
So instead of mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo you need mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo where x is 1 or 2 or whichever partition you used for /. HTH, allan At Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:23:41 -0500 Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo > > Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls > > all I see is boot and lost+found > > Did I make a bigger mess than I thought? > > On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark wrote: >> > I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't >> > boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have >> > to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to >> > re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks! >> >> You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then >> execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another >> editor if you like. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list