From: TN <tnuro@yahoo.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:24:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4410D56A.4060205@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and
I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian
& winxp.
I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo
wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made
/dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS.
The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the
machine I have 2 problems:
(i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough
fixed, but still an installation bug)
(ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device.
>> Determining root device...
>> Mounting root...
mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument
!! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
The grub boot lines are:
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ?
thanks!
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-10 1:24 TN [this message]
2006-03-10 2:02 ` [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems Jim
2006-03-10 2:08 ` Jim
2006-03-10 2:26 ` TN
2006-03-10 3:02 ` Jim
2006-03-10 3:31 ` Sarpy Sam
2006-03-10 4:12 ` TN
2006-03-10 4:38 ` Sarpy Sam
2006-03-10 3:53 ` TN
2006-03-10 4:36 ` Jim
2006-03-10 5:08 ` TN
2006-03-10 6:01 ` [FIXED] " TN
2006-03-10 6:05 ` Jim
2006-03-10 6:14 ` TN
2006-03-10 16:11 ` Travis Osterman
2006-03-10 2:03 ` Sarpy Sam
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