/ doesn't mount during startup, mnt has dissappeared

busbarn · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

I have been using gentoo for sometime, but didn't allow for proper growth when I partioned my hard drive. So I decided I'd start over from scratch and repartition everything to my liking. I did a stage 3 install because I didn't want to take the time to start from stage 1. My problem is that my / partition isn't being mounted. I run kdiskfree and it says:

/dev/hda1 /boot unmounted
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 / unmounted
/dev/root ? mounted

Also, I don't have a mount folder. Should I just scratch everything and start over? Thanks in advance for the help.

Deathwing00 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:19 am Post subject:

Did you check the contents of /etc/fstab ?

busbarn · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

Yes. My fstab is fine. I chekced to make sure I didn't screw it up and it checks out okay. Any other suggestions?

Pete_Keller · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:32 pm Post subject:

busbarn,

How are you booting? are you using grub or lilo?

Please post your grub/lilo configuration file.

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Chroma · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 40 Location: NEW YAWK

...and just for the heck of it, can you throw your fstab up here.

also double check the filesystems you have set in fstab.
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busbarn · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

Here is my grub.conf:

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi

Here is my fstab:
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs noauto,noatime,notail 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd auto noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,users 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sd vfat noauto,rw,users 0 0
/dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip auto noauto,rw,users 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mydocs reiserfs auto,rw 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

I'm pretty sure that both of these check out okay, but I could be completely ignorant.

Pete_Keller · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:40 pm Post subject:

busbarn,

did you compile using make ??config or with genkernel?

If you used genkernel, you need to add an initrd line.

Also, did you compile reiserfs into the kernel?

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busbarn · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

I compiled the kernel because I don't like genkernel. And yes, I compiled reiserfs into. My "documnet" partition mounts just fine, and it's reiser.

Pete_Keller · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

busbarn,

what is the output of the mount command?

Pete
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goghs · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 9

I think it should be:

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi
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busbarn · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Denver, CO

THanks for the suggestions. I just resinstalled with a stage 2 tarball instead. I downloaded it instead of using the cd and now everything works perfect. I'm not usre if the 1.4 cd stage3 is bad or waht. But everything is peachy now.