problems after grub with filesystems and netmount

[phrksh0]

well im a new user to gentoo and linux in general and i've been giving it a shot. I started from stage 2 and used kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 and configured a few things, mainly hardware modules and stuff. My problem is that when i installed GRUB and rebooted, i got a problem with the filesystem.
First it says

fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.xfs for /dev/root

then later on

fsck.ext2: no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/boot
/dev/boot:
the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed

if i press control - d for normal startup, it gives me a netmount error too, some problem with my eth0 config i guess

can someone plz help, tell me where i messed up at least so if i try installing the whole thing again i dont mess up again or ideally, tell me how i can fix this so i dont have to go through everything again
thx
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[lotharnion]

You forgot to edit your /etc/fstab file.
By default, you have entries in there for
/dev/BOOT
/dev/ROOT
/dev/SWAP

which you are actually supposed to set to YOUR devices (/dev/hda3 for your root dir, for example) and to the file system you chose after you fdisk's your drive.

Boot with the cd, mount your root filesystem off of /mnt/gentoo, and edit /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab
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