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A commonly seen error is that you must choose from the menu displayed the config you want to boot with: pentoo changes=/dev/sdb1

changes=/dev/sdXY Allow you to specify where to store configs, etc. In case you have a harddisk partition in FAT, ext2/3 or reiserfs, you can specify it there so you should be asked if you want to store stuff on it.