From: Moshe Kamensky <moshe.kamensky@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on MacBook
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:38:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110912123812.GA20707@gaspode.gateway.2wire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC1F7297-E023-44FC-A658-945CB2247F6C@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
* Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [09/09/11 12:27]:
>
> On 9 September 2011, at 04:50, Moshe Kamensky wrote:
> > ...
> > I was happy to soon... It now boots, but after asking me about keyboard
> > layout, it tries to find the cdrom and fails, with messages like:
> >
> > Looking for CDROM
> >
> > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda1
> > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda2
> > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda3
> > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda4
> > Media not found
> > Determining root device...
> > Could not find the root block device in .
> > Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same, type "shell
> > for a shell, or "q" to skip
> >
> > (The /dev/sda* are partitions on my HD).
>
> What CD are you trying to boot? I would try different LiveCDs until you find one that works.
>
> The Gentoo wiki suggests that an older version of the Gentoo Minimal CD might work (2008.0 or earlier), otherwise try SystemRescueCD, Knoppix, Ubuntu and others.
>
Thanks for the help. I was using the latest LiveCD version (Sep 8, I
believe). I also tried a recent grml, no luck. I could probably make it
work, but I have no time right now. I am now running Gentoo within
VirtualBox, which works fine and is actually better, because some people
are using the osx. Anyway, thank for the help.
Moshe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-09 3:09 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on MacBook Moshe Kamensky
2011-09-09 3:14 ` covici
2011-09-09 3:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Moshe Kamensky
2011-09-09 3:50 ` Moshe Kamensky
2011-09-09 6:11 ` covici
2011-09-09 11:42 ` Moshe Kamensky
2011-09-09 13:38 ` covici
2011-09-12 12:39 ` Moshe Kamensky
2011-09-09 16:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-09-12 12:38 ` Moshe Kamensky [this message]
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