I think I have fixed the problem.... Inside of /dev/sda1 there was a symbolic link called boot pointing to . I have no idea how it got there.
I mounted this as /mnt/scsi removed the link, remounted it as /mnt/gentoo/boot and now all looks well: /dev/sda3 8212408 657152 7138080 9% /mnt/gentoo /dev/sda1 31713 13 30063 1% /mnt/gentoo/boot -Thanks for your help Steve More On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:10:43 -0500, Stephen More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put ext2 on /dev/sda1 > and ext3 on /dev/sda3 > > after I fdisk and changed the partition table. > > livecd tlinux5 # cat /etc/mtab > /dev/ROOT / xfs rw,noatime 0 0 > /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 > /dev/loop/0 /mnt/livecd squashfs ro 0 0 > none /proc proc rw 0 0 > none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > none /dev ramfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 > tmpfs /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware tmpfs rw 0 0 > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo ext2 rw 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot ext3 rw 0 0 > > From what I remember a low level format only needs to be done on a > scsi drive once. This drive was formatted a long time ago. > > -Steve More > > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:05:53 -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stephen More wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install from a 2004.3 Live CD: > > > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > [snip] > > > /dev/sda1 1 32 32752 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda2 33 521 500736 82 Linux swap > > > /dev/sda3 522 8669 8343552 83 Linux > > [snip] > > > livecd gentoo # df -k > > > /dev/sda1 8212408 1393220 6402012 18% /mnt/gentoo > > > /dev/sda3 8212408 1393220 6402012 18% /mnt/gentoo/boot > > > livecd gentoo # > > > > What filesystems did you put on sda1 and sda3? Did you format them? > > > > What does 'cat /etc/mtab' give you? > > > > -- > > G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
