[gentoo-user] Error Message on first boot

[greg]

After installing Gentoo from stage 1 and rebooting as per the instructions, I get down to STEP 4 on the boot loading and get the following error message:   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.   To provide some background, I tried doing this with LILO and Grub with the same result. The box is an IBM 300GL 333mhz with 128mb RAM and a 4 GB hard-drive. I followed the installation guide intructions regarding partitioning and have root, swap, and boot partitions set up on hda.     If anyone has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate hearing them. It stink to come this far and get stuck!