have you tried asking in forums.gentoo.org? On 05 Aug 2005 06:25:38 -0400, Kirk Reiser <kirk at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >