Not sure what's causing the problem, but try:
# mount / -o remount,rw

Chris@... wrote:

>I'm made progress made on the tips Ben's given but I I'm stuck.. When
>I load the ramdisk (I download Ben's modified one) everything seems to
>go ok, except that it mounts read only.. so I can't edit the
>resolv.conf to setup nameservers nor mkdir /mnt/gentoo to chroot into
>to get setup. Am I missing something? I didn't want waste anyone's
>time asking dumb questions but i've rtfm and i'm stuck..
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> Chris
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