Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Richard Fish wrote: > On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named >> pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got > > No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The named pipe is missing...or is it supposed to be created during boot? I got No, /dev/initctl is a named pipe created when init runs... title Gentoo 2.6.17 root (hd0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Markowski
Norberto Bensa wrote: > Mike Markowski wrote: >> Any ideas? "Bueller? Bueller?" > > Please post: > > $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > $ ls -l /boot > $ sudo fdisk -l > $ ls -l /dev/console > $ ls -l /dev/initctl > $ ls -l /dev/null Ok, Norberto. Looks like the (or, a) problem is initctl. The nam

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-21 Thread fei huang
On 6/21/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.  Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a "mkfs /dev/sda1" (my /boot partition), then put grub and kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mike Markowski wrote: > Any ideas? "Bueller? Bueller?" Please post: $ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst $ ls -l /boot $ sudo fdisk -l $ ls -l /dev/console $ ls -l /dev/initctl $ ls -l /dev/null pgpnN7lAeIv4t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there ingentoo land.  Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generallyunhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a "mkfs /dev/sda1" (my /boot partition), then put grub and kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Markowski
Here's a little more info that might inspire some ideas out there in gentoo land. Since my /boot partition was possibly in a generally unhappy state, I booted the 2006.0 livecd, did a "mkfs /dev/sda1" (my /boot partition), then put grub and kernel stuff back on /boot. I was confident this would d

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread fei huang
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right.  Through a bad combination of typosand missing an I deleted everything in /boot.  :-(This is what I did to (try to) recover:  # cd /boot  # mklost+found   # emerge grub  [...edited grub.conf...]  [...recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mike Markowski wrote: >Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos >and missing an I deleted everything in /boot. :-( > >This is what I did to (try to) recover: > > # cd /boot > # mklost+found > # emerge grub > [...edited grub.conf...] > [...recompiled kernel & mo

[gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Mike Markowski
Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos and missing an I deleted everything in /boot. :-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel & modules and installed...] I *thoug