Some background:
I have experience with installing gentoo...I've had a few successful installations already. But, in this installation, I decided to try installing it across a few partitions, and also on JFS (I've used ReiserFS in the past).

The problem:
I don't have the actual error message with me and I'm using DSL right now. chroot'ed into my gentoo install so i have access to any of the config files, and i'm installing anything else that i'd like running once i've got it fixed (xorg-x11 for example).

Essentially, after grub and after the kernel does much of it's stuff....I get an error message saying that it can't find init and that I should declare it within the bootloader. so....I added "init=/sbin/init" as one of the kernel options with still no luck. I also wanted to use initng, so I changed it to "init=/sbin/initng" and still didn't get anything.

My partitioning scheme (2 different harddrives):
Harddrive 1 (hda):
Code:
hda1      /boot
hda2      EXTENDED (hda5 - hda9)
hda3      Games (for windows)
hda4      Windows
hda5      /
hda6      /opt
hda7      /var
hda8      /lib
hda9      /usr/lib
Harddrive 2 (hdg):
Code:
hdg1     swap
hdg2     EXTENDED (hdg5 - hdg7)
hdg3     2nd distro
hdg5     /home
hdg6     /usr
hdg7     /backup (random files)
I'm also using JFS for all of my linux partitions, and compiled the JFS modules into the kenrel

grub.conf:
Code:
default 0
timeout 3
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda5 init=/sbin/initng ro
i also had to add "ro" in the kernel options because I use JFS (added step stated in the handbook).

/etc/fstab:
Code:
# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>          <dump/pass>

# NOTE&#58; If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /boot           jfs             noauto,noatime  1 2
/dev/hda5               /               jfs             noatime         0 1
/dev/hdg1               none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/hdg6               /usr            jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hdg5               /home           jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hdg7               /backup         jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hda6               /opt            jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hda7               /var            jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hda8               /lib            jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/hda9               /usr/lib        jfs             noatime         1 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro       0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro       0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0

# NOTE&#58; The next line is critical for boot!
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory &#40;shm_open, shm_unlink&#41;.
# &#40;tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files&#41;
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

Can someone please help me with this? I would really like to be able to use my installation now. It's frustrating to have to boot into DSL and chroot into the gentoo installation to even install something.

Thanks in advance!!