[masinick]

From what I can tell GRUB is expecting to see the kernel image on hda1 (hd0,0) and the system on hda3 (hd0,2). Based on nothing being in /boot, that is clearly a problem. Gentoo Linux seems to like to do things a bit differently than some other systems, which often use just two partitions, the root - / and the SWAP. Gentoo uses three: /boot to contain kernels, / to contain the remainder of the software, and SWAP. Nothing wrong with that, but it does require that you are careful to copy the kernel into /boot. Looks like that is what did not happen.

[sosoy77]

please help me whit this,now i am trying to install gentoo whit knoppix live dvd but i am stopt here:

root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error

and another problem is how to :

mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf

but i forget to tell i have create a filesystem mkfs.jfsin dev sda1 and in dev sda3 .i this is the problem
please i desperately need help.What to do?

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by sosoy77

hi people,i am trying to install gentoo for the 5-th time but the same error is the grub, i did like the manual sees and i got this error:"GNU GRUB version 0.97 (636K lower / 3667840K upper memory)

[Minimal BASH-like line editing is suported. For the first word TAB lists possible command completions.Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.]

grub>"

please help,where i did wrong thanks aticipate

The prompt you got is the grub prompt ... you should carry on the installation in section 10.b of the handbook ...
assuming your boot partition is on the first partition of the first hard disk ... for second partition use (hd0,1) etc.

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

after you installed grub

quit

to exit grub.

[Jonathan183]

Originally Posted by sosoy77

please help me whit this,now i am trying to install gentoo whit knoppix live dvd but i am stopt here:

and another problem is how to :

but i forget to tell i have create a filesystem mkfs.jfsin dev sda1 and in dev sda3 .i this is the problem
please i desperately need help.What to do?

Section 6 of the handbook ... coding is

mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

so it looks like you mis-typed.

Edit: just noticed you are doing 64-bit install ... the section references should be similar but I was looking at a hard copy of the x86 manual.

[sosoy77]

stell the same problem :

root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount: none already mounted or /mnt/gentoo/proc busy
mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/proc
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error

now what? o man please help

[Jonathan183]

You need to umount and mount again.

[sosoy77]

root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
root@Knoppix:/mnt/gentoo# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error

the same problem

[Jonathan183]

what does mount report?

[sosoy77]

what do you mean ?

[Jonathan183]

By the way ... I found genkernel did strange things if I did not set valid entries in fstab first ... for some reason it tried to mount the /boot and / default values ... I ended up doing
nano /etc/fstab before completing section 7d of the manual.