T2000 hangs attempting to mount disk

[cb88]

So from the get go it attempts to mount /dev/sda which is an unformatted scsi disk.

Then once I pass cdroot=/dev/hda it still hangs... I was able to boot to a shell on the cd and mount /dev/hda /somefolder and it worked.... so clearly it is an issue with the boot scripts as far as I can tell.

Any pointers?

[666threesixes666]

cat /etc/fstab.... it will define disks to check & mount or not. # in front of /dev/sda statement will stop it
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[cb88]

Well that would be simple on an installed system but I'd have to rebuild the CD im using to do that...

Perhaps I can increase the debug level

edit: if I boot with gentoo debug

I get this in fstab from the intramfs
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/ram0 / ext2 defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

and this is the output of mount after I mounted the cd

proc on /proc type proc (noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (exec,nosuid,mode=0755,size=10M)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (gid=5,mode=0620)
/dev/hda on /mnt/cd type iso9660 (ro)

I was able to mount the cd on loop0 and then pass that as the block device to use as root... however ran into some more issues.