quoth the John Jolet:
> On Nov 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> > (I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.)
> >
> > I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you
> > new install).
> >
> > So instead of
> >
> >     mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
> >
> > you need
> >
> >     mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo
> >
> > where x is 1 or 2 or whichever partition you used for /.
>
> umm, did I miss a memo?
>   he was trying to fix fstab, which is in /etc, not /boot.

Right, which is why Allen said to mount whichever partition is '/', rather 
than /boot. Read his post again ;)

-d
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