I've come across this "problem" while trying to run a Gentoo system image as a Xen VM on a Debian host (using a prebuilt xen kernel from debian). It appears that the debian initrd mounts /proc and /sys, but /sbin/rc wants to mount those itself in the sysinit stage (and dies if it can't, for whatever reason). It should check to see if they're already mounted before doing this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy a Gentoo system to a Debian Xen host 2. Set it up to use the debian xen kernel/initrd 3. Try to boot it Actual Results: Init fails and prompts for root password for maintainance. Expected Results: rc should see that /proc and /sys are already mounted, and go on about its business.
you didnt post `emerge --info` like the bug report page said to, so i'm going to assume you're using baselayout-1 since this should already be fixed in baselayout-2
