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GENTOO 2004.2 with LILO: ERROR GALORE

I've been at this damn install stage for practically three days. I kept on running into problems over and over again, always after I completed the core of the install, there was something small that I messed up.

Anyway, here is my problem now. I compiled the kernel, everything went fine. I made sure I did not do anything that the Gentoo install guide did not mention and tried my best to do everything that I did mention. So here I am, picking my bootloader (the past 3+ attempts I tried GRUB with no avail). I decide to use LILO, so I follow it's instructions, then I come to the part where I have to run /sbin/lilo to update the lilo loader and I come up with this message:

Code:

Warning '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure..

      Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/targe0/disc' -> '/dev/hda'

      The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was ommitted

            as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory

            structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS device names.

Added gentoo*

Added WindowsXP

Now from what I am reading, this should be an easy fix if I can remove the 'devfs=mount' omition line, but one problem: I do not know what the hell DEVFS_FS nor do I know where this parameter would be. It was never mentioned in the install guide, so I'm pretty much lost from here.

Just FYI:
I have Windows XP installed w/ two other primary partitions. So it takes hda1-hda3.

Hda4 I made into a extended partition and divided it into 3 logical partitions (HDA5-HDA7).

in the lilo.conf file when it mounts the root partition
append devfs=mount to it

It displays the same warning, except it has one more line added:

Code:

Warning '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure..

      Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/targe0/disc' -> '/dev/hda'

      The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was ommitted

            as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory

            structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS device names.

Added gentoo*

Added WindowsXP

Fatal: Default image doesn't exist

I do not have a clue what this could possibly mean.

I guess I'm on my own for this one.

Are you sure fstab is o.k.

Yea it's ok.

I don't know what it means but it's not affecting Linux much, at least from what I can see. With all these complicated procedures and what not with Linux, I am pretty sure that it will be detrimental to my system later on. So if anyone out there knows what this error means, please give me a shout. Even though its not preventing me from using Linux, I would like to correct the error.