tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 ok, after a recent emerge -u world i rebooted and ran into an error message, in which i was told there was an error in /sbin/rc on line 256, because /var/lib/init.d/softlevel does not exist. i know why ;-) because /var is a seperate partition on my machine, which at the point the error comes up (right after init 2.84) that partition has yet to be mounted. now, i have a "fix", sort of... i copied all the files in /var to /var2, rebooted, stuck in the gentoo livecd, mount my root partition, deleted the /var directory (which at this point has nothing in it since i have yet to mount the partition which var resides in-/dev/hda8) and moved (renamed) /var2 to /var, so they system boots fine again...but this leaves my /var partition unused. i'd like to set it back up the way it was, but i'm not sure how to get /dev/hda8 mounted to /var before the error comes up during the boot process. or would it be best to try using partition magic to move the partition i use for /var to a point where i could combine it with my root partition? (root is at /dev/hda6, followed by /usr at /dev/hda7, and then /var at /dev/hda8) hope everyone can understand all that hehehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 only less someone knows a quick fix for this, don't bother posting, as i've decided to redo my system-i wanted to redesign my partition setup anyways-plus gnome was a bit fubar from upgrading to 2.3.2 then downgrading back to 2.2.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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