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Hi everyone! I recently went through the complete gentoo setup process and got to the part where I reboot, after having spent about 3 days on this!
All Progress Wiped
I rebooted with the disc inside because both video tutorials I was watching made no mention it should be removed, and the handbook only mentioned I should remove the disc AFTER telling me to reboot in the direction before. It was really tedious following all those tutorials, and the handbook was really not user-friendly nor were video tutorials particularly helpful, despite a fair bit of commentary to the contrary.
This resulted in most progress being wiped including the make.conf file, leaving me at square one of the gentoo installation process.
Windows OS Deleted
On top of this, it even deleted my Windows OS from my system despite my thorough following of the partitioning instructions. This left me with no OS outside my gentoo CD. You'd have thought gentoo handbook would give a more explicit in-your-face warning about something that serious and better guidance for avoiding such a serious issue! Anyway, for those curious, I found a simple solution.
My Solution
I first ejected the disc. I then snapped it in half and threw it in the garbage. I have vowed to never use gentoo again. I now plan to install Arch Linux from a USB.
This is not joke advice. I recommend anyone who reaches this point do similar.
Hope that's helpful!
Hi everyone! I recently went through the complete gentoo setup process and got to the part where I reboot, after having spent about 3 days on this!
All Progress Wiped
I rebooted with the disc inside because both video tutorials I was watching made no mention it should be removed, and the handbook only mentioned I should remove the disc AFTER telling me to reboot in the direction before. It was really tedious following all those tutorials, and the handbook was really not user-friendly nor were video tutorials particularly helpful, despite a fair bit of commentary to the contrary.
This resulted in most progress being wiped including the make.conf file, leaving me at square one of the gentoo installation process.
Windows OS Deleted
On top of this, it even deleted my Windows OS from my system despite my thorough following of the partitioning instructions. This left me with no OS outside my gentoo CD. You'd have thought gentoo handbook would give a more explicit in-your-face warning about something that serious and better guidance for avoiding such a serious issue! Anyway, for those curious, I found a simple solution.
My Solution
I first ejected the disc. I then snapped it in half and threw it in the garbage. I have vowed to never use gentoo again. I now plan to install Arch Linux from a USB.
This is not joke advice. I recommend anyone who reaches this point do similar.
Hope that's helpful!
Good choice to try Arch next!
