wrong fs type, /dev/sbd1, shm

[Bizarro]

I just installed gentoo and I have a few errors to deal with still one of my concerns at the moment is when I start up gentoo I get this error after
*mounting local filesystems

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

I also get the same error but replace /dev/sdb1 with shm
Any ideas what the problem is??
Thanks

[Juan Pablo]

Well, I need more info

Did you create a file system already?

[Bizarro]

I think so...I finished the handbook through step 10 and booted into linux and thats the error I've been getting for a while now. I was trying to resolve a networking/internet error so I let this one be for a while.

[Juan Pablo]

Sorry, didn't read your post completely, try a fsck

[Bizarro]

well I did
fsck -n /dev/sdb1 and it came back with no errors and it said it was clean
fsck -n /dev/shm gave me some kinda error: fsck.tmpfs: not found
fsck -n /dev/sbd3 gave me warnings about it being mounted and some about miscounted free space and inodes
...I'm not really too sure about how to use fsck as this is my first time with linux so I'm quite newbish

[gruven]

Could you please post your /etc/fstab so that we can see what is in it?

[Bizarro]

sure

/dev/sdb1     /boot     ext2     default,noatime 1 2
/dev/sdb3     /         ext3     noatime         0 1
/dev/sdb2     none      swap     sw              0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0  /mnt/cdrom auto   noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1  /mnt/cdrom auto   noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy auto  noauto      0 0

proc       /proc        proc      defaults          0 0
shm        /dev/shm    tmpfs    nodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0

[gruven]

Try using "defaults" instead of "default". That may or may not fix it, but it is worth a shot.

Also, on your shm options, it should be "nosuid" instead of "sosuid".

[Bizarro]

great! that fixed it , thanks
damn typos lol