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 4.54) id 1FHWUy-00074i-JV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:32:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2A1US8r020471; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:30:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2A1Owgq031549 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:24:59 GMT Received: from smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.211]) by smtp.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FHWNG-0001DN-Df for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:24:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 51573 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2006 01:24:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=42dly9xFP4355FBuvLeh+JCzmrR3Kj4MNOOCG2dDYn5rXCVCk4so1MoxagPUGy4Wj2AbnxERMj/fdNSxG3paSbWiU1h105j5RENAV1wWvnZ6gYLPCXKYk9KxgtdnEwGZGdlKwaVlpN41YJ3xe0GBaiTZXjfOn/LarawLBr01WJc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.66?) (tnuro@203.30.186.59 with plain) by smtp101.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2006 01:24:57 -0000 Message-ID: <4410D56A.4060205@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:24:58 +1100 From: TN User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (Windows/20060214) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d42c0cd1-ebf6-4a05-9313-891a459c24b7 X-Archives-Hash: c53cb0f3bf322cf658a093f1deda5d33 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! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list