This is my second Gentoo install, first one was built
from scratch from stage 1 without error on a Celeron
733, X, KDE, everything perfect.

This one is on a dual PIII, and I am on my fifth
install and its still not working.

- First time, built from Stage 1.  Got some errors so
decided to use the PIII stage3 tarball.

- As part of the emerge -u world at the end of the
stage3 install instructions, I got "some config files
in /etc need to be updated".  Figured out that you
still need to export $CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" as mentioned
is stage 2, but it is not mentioned in stage 3.

- Exported $CONFIG_PROTECT, re did emerge -u world, no
more errors.  However, portage was one of my emerged
packages!  This means every package *after* portage
was built without the benefit of my make.conf!  This
is silly, emerge should be written to stop after
portage at all times and prompt the user to re-edit
the new make.conf

- started over.  This time, did emerge -up world > log
and used that log to do the emerges manually one at a
time.  After I finished portage, I edited make.conf
and did an emerge -u world with no errors (27
packages)

*BUT*

- mount is now all screwed up.  Grub was one of the
emerged packages, and it is in /boot.  Also, a new
directory tree exists under /boot, with unending
levels of more boot dirs, each with a new copy of
grub!  SO, I cp the grub dir to /root, rm -r * in
/boot, and cp the grub dir back to /boot like it
should be.

Now if I run mount (in the chrooted environment) I get
a bunch of crap about XFS and TMPFS that *was not
there before the emerge -u world*.  If I open a virt
console outside chroot, mount shows what it should
show:  /dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot and /dev/hda2 on
/mnt/gentoo

can somebody help me here!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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