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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HiJh5-0002Vz-Jf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:24:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3U0NTqK024329; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:23:29 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3U0JFOc018830 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:19:16 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 12so1752253nzp for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:19:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BfSHLteRtQRTg3G9vMahV7HM0thuygB4sorGTKP9Ga8KDdkd/pNO7oDyrrMJWeMlaPRDFVQyFpqyztI5RqXV5bom3SHFqzcqsNULE/dvoS+zc6MtYM3+wRHHH3Pg57GjUsx5BNJpxMveLU8e/hv2rtXmNnvbjSIXGyaXWCUUaP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PneuYTbQ8GRmEY+gzvvHzJA/xZBQ9xLxdOCem9/jEemYmYUKwft3RqlBowGhEDLa1e7S2klANXc1fU9clN6ZJXikG9uCmLSc99qbR6pFU3j+GB9/EMjkAyf1kHDGuGVqpLtdSPCa8UO14tKxj/x69bX7ntn5AFlJCUVp7enMvsc= Received: by 10.65.203.3 with SMTP id f3mr10649774qbq.1177892355561; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? ( [24.36.7.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e16sm4128301qba.2007.04.29.17.19.13; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46353600.5040105@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:19:12 -0400 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) 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] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 24645d28-3b16-4db4-ab35-79f8cf61ee99 X-Archives-Hash: 289e8c35f77617c116ff60497a95cc10 Hi all, First, I did a google search to see if I could find out anything that might help. My patience wanes after a number of searches so, you'll have to pardon me 'cause I'm looking for a quick answer if anyone knows one. I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron XPS laptop. It came with Windows Vista and I never set it up - I did get to the initial screen for setting it up, but that was because I wasn't quick enough on the draw hitting F2 to get into setup. Anyway, I followed the Gentoo Handbook, like I've done numerous times. On booting the live CD, my hard drive is recognized - it's a SATA drive. Following all the steps in the Handbook, I got no error messages. When I get to the part where I install the bootloader, it installs okay. I have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home. My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda. When I boot to the hard drive, the boot process gets to the point where it says: Determining root device ... Then it says: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata support has been built in. Any guidance would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list