mount local filesystems problem

[MasterDragon]

Note: I am very new to Linux, as such this is probably a very noobish problem. But, I have been through an ungodly amount of documentation and searched the forums several times and have yet to find an answer. I will attempt to provide as much relevant information as possible and hopefully this will get solved, thanks.

My system has 4 SATA hard drives, Linux recognizes them as sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd. Gentoo is installed on sdc with /boot on sdc1 swap on sdc2 and / on sdc3. The other 3 drives are used as storage; sda and sdd are formated as ext3 while sdb is formatted as ntfs (leftover from when I used Windows). The problem is that I can't seem to mount my storage drives at boot. Using this fstab file gentoo itself boots fine, but sda sdb and sdd do not. The folders /media/sda1 /media/sdb1 and /media/sdd1 all exist. Also, when I attempt to mount said drives using this fstab while booted (I make a trivial change such as adding a space and then save, though I am sure there is a better way to do this) I get a screen saying it found the drive and asks what action to take (actually 3, one for each drive). When I select open two things happen:
1. It opens a window with the location media:/sda1 (or sdb1, sdd1 depending on which window I clicked). Going up one level I am in the location "media:/" which I can only seem to get to via the KDE "storage media" shortcut (i.e. I cannot seem to find it anywhere under /, cannot get to it via a command prompt, and it is evidently not a link to /media as the contents are different). I don't know if this is normal or not, I must as that you please forgive my ignorance in this case.
2. It gives me an error saying "feature only available with HAL". After searching the forums and all the documentation I could find I was merely able to confirm my assumption that HAL stood for hardware abstraction layer. I tried "emerge hal" which did not fix it.

Furthermore I can manually mount the partitions without any problems to the directories /media/sda1, /media/sdb1, and /media/sdd1 by doing:

[IQgryn]

Try changing the order of your fstab, so that / is first, followed by boot, swap, and then the rest. The mount may be failing because there is no /media until / is mounted.

The difference between /media and media:/ is that /media is the physical folder where removable media are normally mounted, but media:/ is the konqueror/kde-specific protocol for accessing all removeable devices. SATA drives might be shown as removeable because usb drives also show up under sd*, but i'm not really sure.

[MasterDragon]

Changed the order of fstab as instructed and it works perfectly now.
Thanks

[IQgryn]

Glad I could help. Please add "[SOLVED]" to the end of the topic, so that other people will know you've been answered.