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 1ID5QU-00067f-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:26:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6NLNPvX003081; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:23:25 GMT Received: from barracuda-out1.linkline.com (barracuda-out1.linkline.com [64.30.215.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6NLHwa8028526 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:17:58 GMT X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1185225476-71a302f40000-LfjuLa X-Barracuda-URL: http://64.30.215.67:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: host-66-59-225-129.static.linkline.com[66.59.225.129] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1185225476 Received: from [192.168.50.240] (host-66-59-225-129.static.linkline.com [66.59.225.129]) by barracuda-out1.linkline.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id BA9F856BE14 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46A51B04.4090004@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:17:56 -0700 From: Joshua Doll User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) 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 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-user] boot error Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot error References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at linkline.com X-Archives-Salt: bb0b9bdf-8cea-4744-8c11-8bbec2232580 X-Archives-Hash: de6f037295e8ada36f1a19fef3dd7f32 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 > > What's the drive mappings look like in the bios, I've had issues with sata (I assume) in the past and funky drive mappings because of the bios. It's also possible you missed the sata drivers in the kernel. Did you use genkernel or did you do it by hand? --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list