Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

[Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400
"Colleen Beamer" <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:

> I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition
> table and created file systems on them.  I can read data from the
> drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fine.  I just can't
> get the drive recognized when I boot to the system.

this means one of three things 
1- no driver for your IDE interface
	which could also be a module that you need from initrd but 
	isn't there; additionally, perhaps a hardware management process
	that the cd uses isn't available and the driver is never loaded
2- no support for the Filesystem in question in your kernel
3- incorrect specification of root filesystem or partition in fstab or
	grub.conf.  This includes specifying an incorrect device
	(sda1 from new PATA experimental drivers, when it's hda1 on
	your system, for example) 

I don't think there's anything else that could cause the problem.  Can
we see fstab and grub.conf to make sure please?  
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