On 12/18/2016 5:39 PM, Michael Sullivazn wrote:
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> 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.
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>> -Michael Sullivan-
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> 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.
I re-downloaded the LiveUSB image and was able to boot it after a few
tries. I have corrected my grub config and have successfully booted off
the hard drive. Now I'm trying to find out which package manager it
uses, so I can get the packages I use every day installed...
Posted by: Michael Sullivazn <msulli1355@gmail.com>
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