Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Hey guys.  I screwed up rc.conf.  It seems if I load gdm manually after logging in my mouse and keyboard work.  But if it starts in rc.conf my mouse and keyboard do not work.  It seems I need this
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
according to my installs on virtual box.(it did the same thing).  Not sure why I made the same mistake again.  Anyway I tried booting up the arch live cd and mounting my partition.  I can mount my boot partition fine.  sda1.  I can mount my home partition fine.  sda4.  sda2 is swap.  sda3 is what I need to mount but every time I do it mounts the freaking boot cd.  What am I doing wrong.
fdisk -l comes up with sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4.  There are no other partitions. 
this is my command mount /dev/sda4 /mnt .  This mounts my home partition fine and shows all my files.  mount /dev/sda3 /mnt.  Re mounts the cd.
Thanks for any help.
Last edited by dham (2010-02-23 17:22:42)

Then post the output of fdisk -l and blkid. This will show your partitions are aranged.
Instead of mounting on mnt try mounting in a folder of mnt. That what usually I do and most people do.
cd /mnt
mkdir arch
mount /dev/sda3 arch
and so on for each partition.

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