gentoo on inspiron 4150 laptop. Won't boot

[tommy_haaland]

I reached the end of the installation manaul where I had to boot from a floppy. I rebooted and got the grub prompt and wrote in these commands (according to the installation manual):
# etc-update
# exit
(This exits the chrooted shell; you can also type ^D)
# cd /
# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
# umount /mnt/gentoo/proc
# umount /mnt/gentoo
# reboot

Whatever I wrote, I got "illegal command" or something. So I rebooted my machine without the floppy and typing the commands, and got several messages:

modprobe: can't locate module /dev/biit
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. ..............................

*Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed.


Can anyone help?

[tommy_haaland]

btw I used genkernel from stage3 GRP.

[tommy_haaland]

this is my secound time trying to install gentoo. I got the same error on booting:
modprobe: can't locate module /dev/biit
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

[tommy_haaland]

this is my secound time trying to install gentoo. I got the same error on booting:
modprobe: can't locate module /dev/biit
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

[ws]

post your fstab

[tommy_haaland]

#<fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>

/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime
/dev swap none swap sw
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults

[ws]

ok, your fstab should look like this most likely. This is JUST a example, so make sure you fill in the appropriate hd's. hda1 = 1st partition of drive A or 1 if you prefer, hda2 = 2nd partition of drive A etc.

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime
/dev/hda3 / xfs noatime
/dev/hda2 none swap sw

etc etc

Things that need to be looked at:
1: What file system are you using for your boot drive? That will need to be changed.
2: What file system are you using for your root partition? You'll need to fill that in too. If all those are correct, just fill in the proper HD's and you should be good to go.

ws