Okay, Gentoo round 2 has begun officially (my body was acting up, had to make it chill). Good news, my partitions were remembered from the previous session that ended in doom.
I have used fdisk to confirm their labels are intact from this morning. I do need to mount them before the next step, however, as they are currently unmounted.
This is going a lot faster as it enables me to follow instructions at a reasonable clip. Got to the chroot stage a lot sooner, just took about an hour!
Gentoo Round 2 is going better than expected.
I have achieved the next stage, overcome the dreaded "env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" by trusting my gut and not using the default that was marked in the Gentoo Handbook. I selected, "en_US.UTF-8" and now I am ready to build a fucking kernel.
The horrors, now, will probably begin in earnest as I have walked a path of paradise up until this stage due to my previous prep work that got me to this stage a lot faster. It's only been a few hours now.
Gentoo Handbook is still pretty solid in terms of guiding me, a few double takes at times are necessary to fully process the task which is asked of me.
If this were old me, I would've run. However, I am not afraid as I do have safety nets that will allow me to restore this laptop to working order. However, there are 16 miles of terminal wasteland left to traverse...Before the horrors catch up to me, better get to it!
@wendigo Thank you, that helped!...I can't ask for more though. As now there is even more issues and it is at this point that I am becoming dizzy with overwhelm.
I reached my limit this time. I will be more prepared next time that I get this crazy ass urge to do something so outside of my wheelhouse.
Once again, I do appreciate your help on this.
Crest of Light
Brian Nicar