Post install error, superblock cant be read

[Bizarro]

I just finished installing...kinda, this is my second attempt ever, first attempt on my laptop. Anyway, I should say that I finished going through the install handbook up to the part where it tells you to reboot, this is what happens

*Checking root filesystem ...
fsck.ext: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :(
Give root password for maintenance
or type control-d to continue):

I dont really know what to do.
Any help is really appreciated.

[gruven]

It looks to me like your partition (/dev/sda6) is corrupted, or isn't the correct partition. Please post your /etc/fstab file and your file layout.

I am very proud of you for using the handbook though, and will help you out in any way I can.

[Bizarro]

thanks

/etc/fstab

/dev/sda3               /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime        1 2
/dev/sda6               /               ext3            noatime               0 1
/dev/sda5               none            swap            sw                    0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,ro             0 0
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults              0 0
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0

sda1 is the dell recovery partition
sda2 is windows
sda3 is boot
sda4 is extended partition
sda5 is swap
sda6 is root

[MikeTbob]

It would be really helpful if you could also post the output of

fdisk -l

That's a lowercase L
And

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

Just to be sure we aren't giving you some bad advice.

[Bizarro]

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start          End       Blocks    Id  System
/dev/hda1               1           12        96358+   de  Dell Utility
/dev/hda2   *          13         3339     26724127+    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3   *        3340         3344        40162+   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            3345        12161     70822552+    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            3345         3843      4008186    83  Linux
/dev/hda6            3844        12161     66814303+   83  Linux

and cat /boot/grub/grub.conf gives me a no such file or directory error

[gruven]

First, you need to change the swap partition type from 83 to 82 (linux swap) and then do a "mkswap" on that partition from the livecd.

To get the output of "cat /boot/grub/grub.conf", you will first have to mount your /boot partition.

mount /boot

then do the command.

Just to make sure, but you did create filesystems before you did the install, right?
mke2fs -j for your ext3 partitions and mke2fs for your ext2 partitions.

[Bizarro]

Thanks, I changed the swap partition to 82 and I also did what someone else recommended, which was changing from sdaX to hdaX in my fstab, and that fixed it(i dunno why tho). I booted up to a login and finished up by adding a user and removing the tarballs, but I did get some modules that failed to load when I booted up.

[MikeTbob]

Awesome, I didn't even see that the names in fstab were wrong. Now on to the next part of the Gentoo install guide.
Which modules failed?

[Bizarro]

*    Loading module processor ...
*    Failed to load processor
*    Loading module thermal ...
*    Failed to load thermal
*    Loading module video ...
*    Failed to load video
*    Loading module speedstep-centrino ...
*    Failed to load speedstep-centrino

and here is the slight backstory that I think may be responsible for this
I was following this guide
HARDWARE Dell Latitude D820 - Gentoo Linux Wiki
and when I got to the kernel configuration part, I found that I couldn't locate a couple of the things that it told me to include, and I just kinda assumed that its because the guide was made a while back or something. Was this a stupid assumption...did I skip things?

[MikeTbob]

I would go back and remove those modules that fail from /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
I think you should be ok, if you just follow the standard Gentoo install guide, then if you need to, come back to this Dell Latitude Wiki for the Wireless card and whatnot.