[ILUG] Gentoo live cd info

[Walter Faleiro]

Thats exactly what I did Conor

Created a partition
mke2fs -j /partition
mount partition /mnt/tmp
scp root.dump /mnt/tmp
ufsrestore root.dump

Boot into rescue mode

grub-install /dev/hda1


--Walter

On 2/22/07, Conor Daly <conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:14:40AM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Walter Faleiro thought:
> >    I could run the restore command via  a fc6 cd, but now am stuck with
> a
> >    familiar error
> >
> >    attempt to access beyond end of device
> >    03:01 rw=0 want=1234567890 limit=12345678
> >    kernel panic no init found try passing init= option to kernel
> >    The above numbers are phoney just to indicate the error
> >
> >    I tried booting the system from the grub command line
> >
> >    root (hd0,0)
> >    kernel xxxxx
> >    initrd xxxxx
> >    boot
> >
> >    But it hangs at the same place.
> >    The original system has a 36G disk and the restored one has 18G
> partition
> >    on which the root.dump was restored.
>
> How did you set up the partition?  You're supposed to make a new
> partition, create a new filesystem, mount that, cd into the mountpount and
> then usfrestore.
>
> Conor
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