Thank you. Yes. That was the problem. (This will teach me to read the man page: noauto Can only be mounted explicitly (i.e., the -a option will not cause the file system to be mounted).
----------- Notice the 'noauto' option you have in your fstab for every one of your partitions.. this tells the mounter to 'not automatically' mount the partition:)... I believe they (gentoo-devs) used it for /boot so you dont accidentally mess up your kernel while running, and if you want to install a new kernel, you should manually mount /boot.... you must have copied and pasted that line not knowing what the 'noauto' meant:) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
