I used the latest stage3 of gentoo: stage3-i686-20101102.tar.bz2 I installed the latest version of portage: portage-latest.tar.bz2 I followed the handbook exactly like it was stated. Yet during boot it clearly states: "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem." I even ran e2fsck on all the partitions on the drive and nothing showed up. I have installed gentoo at least two dozen times in the past on different computers (including this one) and I have never had any problems like this. I have tried several times to fix this problem but I couldn't. Its a dell optiplex PC. I will attach the grub.conf, fstab, kernel-config, and make.conf I also tried installing this version of gentoo on a different computer and it didn't make any difference. Same error. Hopefully this is something I did wrong and not a fault of gentoo linux but I couldn't figure it out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow the gentoo handbook for base install and configuration 2. Install grub 3. reboot PC Actual Results: Err.. refused to boot correctly. Expected Results: Err... Work? Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.wallawalla.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/ ftp://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cs.uni.edu/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl acpi alsa berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 minimal modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline session ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware voodoo" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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The kernel you compiled is most likely calling the harddrive /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda. You may just need to adjust your fstab and grub.conf to make this error go away.
I tried using the /dev/sda format instead of /dev/hda but the kernel refuses to recognise /dev/sda4 as a valid root filesystem. I changed my grub.conf and my fstab to the correct settings.
You can't mount /boot before /. Try commenting out the /boot line in your fstab. Also, you are mounting hda4 twice. It looks like /boot is a directory based on the grub file.
(In reply to comment #8) > You can't mount /boot before /. Try commenting out the /boot line in your > fstab. The order of lines in fstab is irrelevant. People, please take this stuff to forums.g.o or the #gentoo channel on irc.freenode.net - if you end up finding a genuine bug, then please report it.
