Creating partitions in linux..actually all my gentoo questions go here.

[Dr Unne]

It says all this (and much more) in the comments in /etc/make.conf, by the way. It also says not to use -march=pentium4 because of bugs in GCC, but I use it anyways.

[Peegee]

>_<

I got up to configuring the bootloader. I chose grub, ran it. It compiled or installed or whatever. I ran grub, and it 'crashed'!! I couldn't do anything so I had to reboot.

So here's my question: how do I recover what I've done? The drives aren't mounted, and there's no files. *confused again*

[Dr Unne]

Your files are still there, you just need to chroot into your install. Something like this.

1) Boot from CD.
2) mkdir /mnt/gentoo (if it doesn't already exist)
3) mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo (hda3 being the root partition for your Gentoo install on your HD... yours may be different)
4) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot (hda1 being your boot partition for your Gentoo install on your HD, yours may be differentl)
5) mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
6) mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
7) chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash (This will take you "into" your Gentoo install on your HD, as though you'd booted to it)
8) env-update (just in case)

If grub crashes again for some reason, you shouldn't have to reboot (and you really shouldn't ever do that, especially with something like grub that's editing your MBR ). Instead hit CTRL+C to kill it. Grub shouldn't be crashing though. Something's not good, if it does.

[Peegee]

What a timesaver

I finished all the steps, rebooted, removed the cd, and the computers starts spitting a continuous stream of GRUB...like

GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB

and so forth ad infinitum -_-

So where did I go wrong? When I boot from the liveCD what step should I go back to? I tried redoing the grub config...all the files are there, etc.

[Endless]

You can try this:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug.../msg00118.html

(although I still think you should have used the stage3 for p3 if you haven't)

I also saw a page where someone said he installed Mandrake in it's minimal install, just to have grub put right, then went back to gentoo to finish the setup.

[Dr Unne]

http://forums.gentoo.org/ is the answer to all problems Gentoo by the way. Search the forums, any question you might think of has been answered 10 times there.

Post your grub.conf here, maybe you have a typo. Also are you using RAID? Because that screws stuff up. I don't know how to configure grub or lilo to work with RAID.

[Peegee]

Okay, I gave up on gentoo, and install the (rediculously) simple Lycoris Linux

xD

I just need this computer to have two programs: folding@home, and mozilla firefox. How do I 'install' firefox? I extracted the files, but the firefox exec file doesn't do anything (yes it has chmod +x)

pointless question: The install comes with mozilla, but the interface and icons look very much like netscape. In fact I think this is a netscape browser. Was mozilla in any way affiliated with netscape?

[Dr Unne]

Installing programs is different for each distro. Look it up on the Lycoris website.

Netscape is based on Mozilla, yes. Netscape = Mozilla + crap.