help! i've completely fucked my gentoo installation

[simon_marklar]

All i did was the "recommended" update command "portage --update --deep world", when i restarted, the damn thing wont see my hard disk at all (says it cant see /dev/hda3, and it is indeed missing from /dev/ ... but when i boot using a livecd i can mount the file system and its all there...

im lost... wtf was i supposed to do after the update command? how can i fix this?

[vladi]

This is why I stopped using Gentoo a year and a half ago. I wish I could help you but I have no idea what went wrong. You should probably post this on the Gentoo forums.

*EDIT: Were there any config files that you needed to update after you did an 'emerge --update --deep world'? Perhaps you forgot to update them. I know a command exists in Gentoo that lists all of the config files you have yet to update, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. Also you might wish to check your /etc/fstab to make sure hda3 is entered there in the mounts.

[simon_marklar]

im waiting for the damn forum admin to aprove my account.

the problem is that i need to compile my kernel with support for the file system not as a module. but i cant do that, becuase the file system is read only. if i boot with the live CD, i can do a make config, but it fails on 'make' : cannot find GCC.

I'm about to throw the damn thing through the wall.

edit: i just discovered the chroot command, and it looks like a kernel is compiling... fingers crossed!

[foolish42]

Word of warning. When upgrading major versions, take a new box, load it up, transfer all your data/applications/etc from the old box

There is no other way, even if you get a sucessful upgrade, you'll still have all that old crap on your drive that you can't easily get rid of. And in the worst case, you'll have a dead machine.

[ewe2]

you don't use stuff like lvm, do you? that is very prone to break if a config file goes wonky.

[cranky]

hehehehehee... pwned by nix.

join the club :D

[stinky]

I thought gentoo came fucked out of the box ?

[ewe2]

on the other hand it sounds like sysfs breakage eg it wasnt selected in the kernel compile. that sounds more likely. so check the gentoo wiki about sysfs.