corruption on boot?

[chiefgenius]

ok, so ive been trying to install gentoo about 5 times now, and i thought i finally got to doing it right. Im running a plain old x86 version and I used the gs-sources kernel and the live cds with GRP and i used genkernel. so everything was going ok, and then, when i got to the step right before rebooting, i did

umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo/

and it says that they dont exist. and since ive installed it 4 others times to this point, and its never said this to me before, i know that has to be a problem. i dont understand why it would do that. any, so i reboot, and interestingly enough, it finally works for the first time. I used grub, but the splash screen doesnt show, and it automatically starts booting. as its booting, the screen is all corrupt, but after going through a few things and saying ok to them, it eventually corrects itself. then, it cant bring up eth0, even though the livecd could. so then i figure, well, maybe ill try installing the packages form the second cd, so i do

mount /mnt/cdrom
but it says mount point does not exist.

i followed everything in the handbook to the t, this was honestly the 5th time going through it, every other time its failed to boot. is there away to salvage this install? or should i start over. i dont know what happened that it said it cant unmount those directories. if theres other information you need to help, im quite fimiliar now with each part, and i can tell you exactly what i used.

ok, thanks for any help

[NeddySeagoon]

chiefgenius,

[Oyarsa]

[chiefgenius]

ah yes, i forgot to type exit. dang, guess thats what happens when you do the same thing over and over again and think you remember it.

ok, so i dont really understand how i should fix it.

when i reboot, it takes me to the login screen.

the errors for eth0 while starting up are:

SIOCSIIADDR No such device
eth0: unknown interface no such device
SIOCSIFBRADDR No such device
eth0: unknown interface no such device
SCIOCSIFNETMASK
failed to bring up eth0
netsetup not started

ok, so at the login screen, i still try to mount the cdrom, but nothing happens
i login as my user
then i do su -
and i say
/mnt/cdrom
and it says
mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist

so is there anything i can do? or should i go give it another go

[chiefgenius]

the only thing i could think of to try was to boot with the cd again, then try the exit, but that doesnt work, so i dont know what to do, think its a lost cause and i have to reinstall it?

[Oyarsa]

Are you typing something like:

[NeddySeagoon]

chiefgenius,

Your partitions, filesystems and everything except your kerenl is probably OK.

Heres how to recover.
Boot from the liveCD, skip the bit about partitioning and makinging filesystems.

Mount your filesystems on /mnt/gentoo, just like install time then follow the instructions for getting into the chroot environment.

When you have goy this far, you are running your gentoo system on the liveCD kernel. you have to fix the kerenl to make the system stand alone.

If your system comes up without booting from the liveCD, check if /mnt/cdrom actually exists. if not

[chiefgenius]

ok, i dont understand what you mean by fixing my kernel.

are you saying i:

do mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
and so on for proc

then skip the installing gentoo installation files

and go to chrooting, and do everything again from there?

[chiefgenius]

ok, well, i did what you said, i mounted the file systems, then i chrooted into them, then i created the /mnt/cdrom, and now the cdrom works fine. The sytem boots fine, except for two things. i used grub, and before, when i installed it other times, it would bring up a splashscreen and let me choose to boot into gentoo. now, it doesnt come up, it just waits with a little blinking _ . and then, i hit enter, and it starts booting, however, all the text is corrupt, and i cant see anything, but eventually that fixes itself. so i guess unless that is from a serious problem or indicates a serious problem i dont care. but the other problem is that it says my eth0 device does not exist. where can i go to configure it? and is there a reason why it didnt get transferred or detected correctly? could it have been using the GRP version of genkernel? ok, again, tahnks for any help

[NeddySeagoon]

chiefgenius,

Your missing splash screen is probably something to do with your grub set up and the content of /boot.

Boot from the hard drive then do