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Ah, must've been my tabs in the linuxboot.cfg. I replaced them with spaces and it works awesomely now. Thanks for all your help, CB.

Yeah, those were there. I went and started over from the beginning; now when the pc_kbd: key stuck error or whatever finally clears up (even without anything plugged in the controller ports), I get reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,1) kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on ...

Oops, forgot to mark partitions as active/bootable when running cfdisk earlier. I went and ran it now, and I get this "cannot find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0)" error. Should I just wipe it clean and start over?

Ahhh...you know what? I sure didn't. I'll look at that later today.

edit: Is there a way to make it active that won't cause data loss? I'm scared to run fdisk if it's going to screw it up.

Well, I got the mounting sorted out now. I got to the bit of your tutorial where you copy over vmlinuz, create linuxboot.cfg, and re-write the contents of fstab. Done, done, and done. Flashed loader 5.11 to my chip. Boot up and see CD/DVD and Advanced. No hard drive option. What's left to do?

I finally got through that detailed tutorial of how to install gentoox 100% natively, yet the loader bios doesn't give the option to boot from the hard drive. I've done every step; copied over vmlinuz, created linuxboot.cfg, wiped out and re-did fstab...but it only shows CD/DVD boot and Advanced.

I'll run md5sum on it and see...

and then I mounted it under KNOPPIX as /mnt/gentooxrootfs and copied all the files from /mnt/gentooxrootfs over to /mnt/hda3. How'd you manage that? All I get is this crap: root@ttyp0[etc]# mount /mnt/hdd2/rootfs /mnt/test -t reiserfs mount: /mnt/hdd2/rootfs is not a block device (maybe try `-o loo...

Oh, and mount /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mnt/loopback -o loop=/dev/loop/0 fails with "Block device required"

I'm trying to do a full native install. I've formatted my 10GB drive and sent over the rootfs file. Resctoox:> ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 e drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 18 22:11 hda2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 22:33 loopback drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 swap...

Say WHAT? Resctoox:> ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 e drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 18 22:11 hda2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 22:33 loopback drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 swap drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 temp Resctoox:> mount -o loop /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mn...

Illegal software? You've got me all wrong, see!

Thanks. Unfotunately, it seems to demand a 4.5GB partition no matter what when installing, so my hope of having it on the free F: space of a 10GB drive is smashed. Guess I'll look into formatting the entire thing as EXT2/3 and having a 10GB native install. Apparently that's not terribly difficult to...

How much space to Pro and Home installations take by default?