Can't boot because /proc won't mount.

[Pythonhead]

Hello,

I've used the alternate install method from Tom's rtbt disk.
Everything went fairly smoothly, except when I go for my
first boot it fails because it can't mount /proc, complaining
Mount command failed only root can do that.

I've tried both of these lines in fstab:

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I've even tried changing "defaults" to "users".

When I boot into single or emergency mode I can't
seem to mount anything. I always get "only root can do that".
I do have proc enabled in the filesystems options in
the kernel.

Thank you for your time

[KiLLaCaT]

very strange problem...

here a cut from my /etc/fstab:

[Pythonhead]

For those of you doing an alternate installation,
ie from floppy, be carefull if you use Tom's
rtbt disk. While the guide warns you that you
should chown root:root /mnt/gentoo, I found
that all files were untarred with a strange uid.

So, /sbin/init was owned by somebody besides
root. This made things very interesting since
that strange uid was running everything.

[rtn]