On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:44:31 -0200 (BRST), barreto wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am new with Gentoo and already have experienced a big problem installing
> my Gentoo.
> 
> I have followed the instructions from the site of Gentoo.
> 
> All steps has ocurred with no problems.
> 
> However, whem I have tried my first boot, the system stops with the
> following message above:
> 
> STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options
> Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev
> STEP 4: Determining root device
> STEP 4a: Mounting root
> mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument
> Could not mount specified ROOT, try again
> Root block device unspecified or not detected
> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell
> :
> 
> 
> After the sequence of messages the system stops loading.
> 
> I have already tried to install Gentoo at least 4 times, with grub and
> lilo boot loaders, and all tries the sequence of messages are the same.
> 
> What I doing wrong?

I guess you did not edit your /etc/fstab correctly by replacing the ROOT
with the actual root you have.

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