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 1ID5sN-0008DH-KO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:55:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6NLri0o006199; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:53:44 GMT Received: from web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6NLirBu026702 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:44:54 GMT Received: (qmail 55566 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Jul 2007 21:44:53 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=VbeYEwxBRBIryqzoNwJTW2DtloZfrfiXA8rnKSzSNcOcGN+D4yPd6ab6stc3BRFVmeIzqOihNZFu0sT5v+XpIp0dMc0DJDZJOr4xuCzxJ9cBL4wftQ5W8DCdmPpKY7UJ3EinXhSj8u5Qq321rdSeq8hHHvBBJAbF4oerptTfF2U=; X-YMail-OSG: 7m_Gs8kVM1l1zYnMbDqQAo3q8YouMLFlt51JoAJID9jD2FmRR6N1cQUzYPlfePKTogOl2C3zfr56ASHEkRdRowqoc_YGJAA5siJb6Y406FltFkAVY0KIBRfhcBc6yg-- Received: from [64.228.98.45] by web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:44:51 PDT Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot error To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <248946.54766.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 05c9a553-bbbd-412c-a847-c360a40168ab X-Archives-Hash: e2ec5d71725974023f93d1ab01ec61f6 --- James wrote: > Hello, > > I have several new portables to install. > On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive > and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic > installation (no X, KDE ....) > > The installation ran to completion. The installation > process declared itself successful. > > Upon reboot I get this error message: > > 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... > > The partitioning is quite simple > > sda1 ntfs vista(soon) > sda2 reiserfs /boot > sda3 swap > ada4 reiserfs / > > Trying sda2 does not work either. > > Is the best method to rescue this install to use the > > minimal cd and fdisk and mark the sda2 partition as > a boot. > > I'm about ready to use the Handbook and perform the > install > the old way... > > Any suggestions? > > > James > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > This same problem has been handled on gentoo-user bout a billion times. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list