This may be the same problem as the "very long boot." I am not qualified to say. But Dimitrios implies that his system boots eventually. Mine gives up and drops me to a shell.
Following some fiddling around with Gentoo on my "fiddling" partition, I put Cauldron back. I could get into Cauldron O.K., but when I tried to boot into Mga2, it kept stopping with a kernel message that it couldn't activate a partition with "Dependency failed." One by one I excluded the partitions from /etc/fstab until I would no longer have a usable system. With the last one, I typed Ctrl-D and got in. I was then able to activate the excluded partitions and mount them with the usual "mount" command. Now I am afraid to reboot. In addition it said that the two test partitions had no journals, although they were reformatted before I installed Cauldron. Doug.
