After install error

**lokoalex** · 06-02-2005

I installed the OS and everything was running perfectly fine. But when I select Gentoo in Grub. It starts to load it properly. But I get an error message that says:

Code:

>>Mounting filesystems
mount&#58; Mounting devfs on /dev failed&#58; No such devices
Error opening file&#58; ".devfsd" No such file or directory
>>Determining root device...
>>Block device /dev/hda4 is not a valid root device...
>>The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
     Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
boot&#40;&#41;

This is the second time that I tried to install it and I got the same error the first time. What am I doing wrong. I am dual booting with Windows XP.

**lokoalex** · 06-02-2005

I figured it out. Forgot to add udev to my grub.conf. Im so stupid sometimes.

**lokoalex** · 06-02-2005

Now im getting an error message that says:

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ERROR&#58; Problem starting needed services
            "netmount" was not started.

This comes up before the login prompt. How do I rid myself of this message. Thank you

**jaboua** · 06-02-2005

Find out which module the livecd has loaded for your network-card, with the help of "lsmod", and try compiling it into your kernel. Also make sure your /etc/conf.d/net is OK, compare it to the one in the manual.

PS: There should be added a sticky thread explaining this since this is the most common reason of posting in the gentoo-section I beleve...

**projectshifter** · 06-04-2005

If netmount is not loading and you want to get rid of it, you can always just use rc-update to remove it from bootup.

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