R/O filesystem

Okay, I give up. I had a Gentoo 1.4 system on the iMac (400MHz,
64Mb, tons of disk space, swap space etc.) but I thought - it's a
bit old and I want some new things to try out so I'll upgrade.

Mistake.

I've tried the emerge update route, I've tried the 2004.3 CD
route. I keep getting a message when I reboot the system
after the initial install that my root filesystem is R/O. Or /etc
is R/O. Sungle user mode insists that it can't find /dev/hda14.

I've tried ext2, ext3, reiserfs. Different lists of errors but the
same symptom. fstab is ok, yaboot.conf is ok. The Universal
CD boots and I can quite obviously get at /dev/hda14 to
install things but when the reboot comes along this happens.
I've tried jiggling options in fstab as well.

The only other place I saw something like this on the web was
a Japanese Gentoo site but the Babelfish translation of that
just tells me that they don't know what the problem is either.

Obviously I'm missing something. I tried the forums (still
awaiting my enrollment confirmation). I've scanned various
lists etc. I can't find anything.

Help? Please?

If this has been referenced anywhere please point it out
and I apologise in advance if it has.

Many thanks.

Rod


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