Newbie needs help...Bootloader problems

[ike1656]

ok heres the deal...i just installed gentoo last night...
i red the xml document thats atHere (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml)

well when i got to the edit your fstab part i dont think i did...and when i configured grub for my bootloader it wont work...
is there a way to get past the boot loader into console or anything or is there a way to edit my fstab inside of grub???....help plzz....i spent about 12 hrs installing this and now i cant get it to boot...im not for sure what to put in the boot loader to boot cause i dont know what the names of my drives in fstab are...i would really appreciate some help...ty

[dkleinsc]

If you're really a true newbie, you're a pretty brave one to start out with gentoo. All the more power to you.

The way to get into a console again is to use you're install disk to boot up. If you downloaded gentoo, you should have boot floppy or livecd that can get you into a console. Once you're in a console, you can mount the drive you're installing to, and edit fstab. The gentoo instructions will help you through that process, or you can ask me about it if you get lost.

Good luck on the install. Gentoo is pretty tricky to install, but worth the effort.

[ike1656]

im not really a linux newbie.
i have had red hat and mandrake installed before

ok when i boot the cd...its the live cd i can get into the
cdimage#/ or whatever it is...
how do i mount the hard drive to were everything is installed
i figured out how to edit fstab and all but it tries to edit the fstab on the cd
how can i get to the one on the hard drive?