Apparently, though unproven, at 19:22 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall <wallservi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting > > the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. > > > > James Wall > > I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as previously > posted. It somewhat resolved the problem, but I still got error messages. > Since I was tired at this point, I gave up. > > This morning, I tried what was suggested and used an earlier stage 3 > tarball (Apr. 24th, I believe it was). This solved the problem and I was > able to boot. Must have been an issue with the stage 3 tarball I had > previously tried. > > Thanks for the help and comments, everyone! If you are interested in that kind of thing, the full detail of what the problem is can be found here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com