Hi Doug: I don't really know anything about the gentoo booting sequence but it sounds like the root partition is not being remounted after initial booting. On debian systems the first or at least very early script which gets run is bootmisc.sh in /etc/init.d and checkroot. On my system it used to be a script called just boot but it looks as if that has been split up and the current script responsible for the remount is checkroot. That's about all I can suggest. Good luck. -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
