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 1FHX79-0004E8-DJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:12:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2A2AOGX015921; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:10:24 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2A23NSR027847 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:03:23 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n1so617853nzf for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OYKjV8+T8T85rcvsJ/J0pUdOeErJrK8pv/2EIqk7mhAfSebo9ndeBHpwL5oj+JYx/4NeiEUSnfx6okt+MYspsKM0ZetdUNPzrt5LuPPKbSgCISSsS076cBJn55xmJaBi1G/brE+aog5iEGRb523oLDqElrTWpdgJTGPf2GBPgsE= Received: by 10.36.252.22 with SMTP id z22mr4014231nzh; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:03:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.49.3 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:03:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:03:22 -0700 From: "Sarpy Sam" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems In-Reply-To: <4410D56A.4060205@yahoo.com.au> 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-Disposition: inline References: <4410D56A.4060205@yahoo.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2A23NSR027847 X-Archives-Salt: d99a706d-2cc6-4d3e-a85a-0b003d3fb3e0 X-Archives-Hash: 585be4f234690b2b5482d1ebc25dc136 On 3/9/06, TN wrote: > 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! >>From the gentoo handbook located here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 Note: If your root filesystem is JFS, you must add " ro" to the kernel line since JFS needs to replay its log before it allows read-write mounting. I don't use JFS so I dobn't know exactly how to do it but this is what I got from searching google. Kirby -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list