[gentoo-user] installation failure

[jfmxl]

Hi,

I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website ...
but I guess no one bothers with that , or they just threw away my mail.

I'm looking for an alternative to debian/systemd and gentoo seems a good
possibility. I downloaded the minimal amd64 install and went through the
drill making a qemu/kvm vm. I was careful and my efforts would pay off,
but no joy. When I rebooted the machine I saw the grub and a bunch of
initializations whizzed by ... but the kernel failed to mount root.

I opened a shell and looked at /etc/fstab, but found a /dev/ram0 and a
/proc and nothing like what I'd entered ... I'd followed the program in
the handbook.

When I tried to unmount the /mnt/gentoo (formerly) chroot partition at
the end the complaint was that something using it ... I couldn't
discover what that was, after waiting an retrying several times, I just
shut the vm down and restarted ... with the result above. Is there any
hope of rescuing this?

I have a new machine and I'd like to make gentoo the primary os on it,
but I'm once bitten ... and it took me several hours effort to fall on
my face the first time around.

Any suggestions appreciated ... that is if I'm not already blackballed
for somehow not holding my mouth right.

(I just sent foolishly this message from an unenrolled email address as 
well, so I am resending it now from my enrolled address)