[ILUG] Gentoo live cd info

[Conor Daly]

That's me stumped.  Only other thing I can suggest is to boot the fc6 CD
and do an upgrade install. (assuming the machine already has an fc6
install)  That might sort it out...

Conor

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:44:27PM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Walter Faleiro thought:
>    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 <[1]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
> 
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