Post-install Boot Issues, Partitions not mounting?

[johncrist1988]

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I performed a fresh install and was greeted with these instances. I've ensured I have tmpfs compiled into the kernel, I've updated system and world, ensured openrc, baselayout, udev, and my fs tools are all installed as well.

My partition layout is as such:

/dev/sda1 -> /boot
/dev/sda2 -> /
/dev/sdb1 -> /home
/dev/sdc1 -> swap
/dev/sdc2 -> /var

I noticed whenever I boot that nothing is in /run, /home, or /var. Sure enough, even though those partitions are listed in /etc/fstab, they aren't getting mounted for some reason during the boot process, so nothing is happening after the kernel loads? Something like that. Pardon my noobism. I made sure that udev and whatnot are in the sysinit runlevel. I'm not sure what else to do.

Is it that the devices aren't having a chance to settle before the system is trying to mount them? Is there a way to delay everything to give them a second to settle down? Am I missing anything?

[NeddySeagoon]

johncrist1988,

I suspect that the root filesystem type listed in /etc/fstab is not the same as the actual root filesystem type, which causes the root filesystem check to fail, root stays read only and its all downhill from there.

If you do

[johncrist1988]

Thank you for the reply, and I will definitely double check that. I remember thinking the same thing (with /etc/fstab) and I recall making sure a few times that I looked at it that reiserfs was the fs type listed. I also double and triple checked to make sure reiserfsprogs was installed.

I'll resume with the rest of your instructions as soon as I can get to the system, as I'm currently at work. If I do have the fs set correctly in /etc/fstab, what else might it be?

[NeddySeagoon]

johncrist1988,

Thats why I want dmesg. Lets wait for the evidence, it will save wild guesses.
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NeddySeagoon

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