Mike Williams wrote: > Interesting... > A 'cat /proc/mounts' like John suggest would be helpful, before and after > attempting to mount stuff, also try the mount manually. > mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/somethingthatexistsbutisntbeingused.
The manual mount worked: # cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 # mount -v /dev/sda3 /mnt/boottest/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda3 I will try type reiserfs /dev/sda3 on /mnt/boottest type reiserfs (rw) # cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/sda3 /mnt/boottest reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 > No, as swap isn't "mounted", you can easily live without swap for a while > though, so just comment it out. Ah yes. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list