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

Did you include the "p" flag while unzipping? If not, I suspect it's a
permission problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Murrell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 9:14 PM
Subject: [gentoo-newbies] first boot: error moutning /proc: only root can do
that


> 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:
>
> -----
>   * Mounting /proc          [ oops ]
>
>   * The "mount" command failed with the error:
>
> only root can do that
>
>   * Since this is a critical task, startup cannot
> continue
> -----
>
> 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,
>
>
>
> =====
> --
> Alan Murrell <[email protected]>
>
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