[ILUG] Gentoo live cd info

[Walter Faleiro]

Hi Conor,
Yes I did do a chroot to the device before running grub install.

When the system boots into the grub menu, I tried giving the parameter for
root, kernel, initrd via command line. But the system stops booting with the
same error.

Thanks,
--W

On 2/22/07, Conor Daly <conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:35:21PM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Walter Faleiro thought:
> >    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
>
> Did you do a 'chroot /mount/point/of/hda1' before the grub-install ?  Can
> you do anything from the grub shell?  Print out your /etc/grub.conf and
> use that as a guide to file names and such.
>
> Is the 18G disk big enough?
>
> Maybe try something like:
>
> scp root.dump /mnt/tmp/root1.dump
> scp root.dump /mnt/tmp/root2.dump
> scp root.dump /mnt/tmp/root3.dump
> scp root.dump /mnt/tmp/root.dump
>
> rm /mnt/tmp/root1.dump /mnt/tmp/root2.dump /mnt/tmp/root3.dump
>
> ufsrestore root.dump
>
> just in case it's somehow putting the /boot/ stuff too far down the
> partition.  This is clutching at straws thought...
>
> I don't think you should have the dump file on the new filesystem
> either...
>
> Conor
>
> >      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
>
> --
> Conor Daly <conor.daly at cod.homelinux.org>
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