first boot: error moutning /proc: only root can do that

Alan Murrell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi There!

I'm new to the list, as well as Gentoo, though a Linux
veteren of 3 years (still learning, though!).  I just
installed the 'Stage 3" tarball for Athlon on my,
well, AMD Athlon system.  I used "Toms Root Disk" to
initially boot the machine, then bunzipped/untarred
the Athlon image.  Everything was fine when I
chroot'd, compiled the kernel, got Grub installed,
etc.  However, when I try to boot, I get the following
error:

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  * Mounting /proc          [ oops ]

  * The "mount" command failed with the error:

only root can do that

  * Since this is a critical task, startup cannot
continue
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The archives do not seem to have had this come up
before, so I'm hoping someone will have come across
this, and know what is wrong?  I guess I'm kinda
confused, since I thought I was booting as 'root', so
why won't /proc be mounted?

TIA,



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Alan Murrell <[email protected]>

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