On 12/18/2016 5:34 PM, Michael Sullivazn wrote:
> OK. I've decided that I'm tired of messing with Gentoo. There's just
> too many things I don't understand about it, and I simply don't have
> either the time or the attention span to mess with it anymore. I
> wiped Gentoo off my box (after backing it up my my 2TB external drive)
> and installed slackex off a LiveUSB that I made back in April when I
> got this computer. I've rebooted it about thirty times in the past
> two hours. Grub claims that it can't find my kernel. I installed
> slack on /dev/sda4. I ran /root/install-boot.sh on /dev/sda4
> /dev/sda. I mounted /dev/sda4 and looked to see that the kernel
> filename was indeed what grub was trying to load. It wasn't. Grub
> was trying to load my kernel plus "-huge". I manually changed
> grub.cfg and rebooted again. Same error. I rebooted with my LiveUSB.
> X failed to start. I rebooted with the LiveUSB again. A whole bunch
> of stuff failed. I'm pretty sure the prompt said something like
> "memory/files" At this moment I have NO linux system AT ALL. Please
> help. I'm trying to think about this the way a normal non-Gentoo user
> would, but I'm having great difficulty doing so. Just trying not to
> panic too much at this moment.
>
> -Michael Sullivan-
>
UPDATE: I just rebooted again, and the prompt says "memory/union #" It
says the hit Control+Alt+Delete to restart the computer, but when I type
anything, there's no response. It did something like this back in
April. I'm pretty sure that it will resolve itself in time, but I don't
really want to wait that long. I use my Linux system daily.
Posted by: Michael Sullivazn <msulli1355@gmail.com>
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