From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ID5Xs-0006dU-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:34:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6NLWIVx018395; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:32:18 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6NLMvng002303 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:22:57 GMT Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443901865D8 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:22:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:22:52 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot error Message-ID: <20070723222252.2a9e4f1e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs55 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_qcw7/Sc/sWzA7B.E361.NOu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 49210e48-9bfb-4ce5-8f23-ad16c4df817b X-Archives-Hash: 84ffc9382da4b37a9b01e5e874937900 --Sig_qcw7/Sc/sWzA7B.E361.NOu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:04:53 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > Upon reboot I get this error message: >=20 > Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... > The root block device is unspecified or not detected. > Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell... You probably haven't compiled the driver for your disk controller into the kernel (not as a module). --=20 Neil Bothwick I am a computer -- dumber than any human and smarter than an administrator. --Sig_qcw7/Sc/sWzA7B.E361.NOu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpRwvum4al0N1GQMRAoPTAKCsMhFt2R13xslLG3SCvC+WMbCoZQCghV/h YRTGyv4RAXJlOhNhDGRROH8= =6o6K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_qcw7/Sc/sWzA7B.E361.NOu-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list