From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKzeh-0003ti-Go for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19E51E0495; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DBCE0495 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665B866BEC for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.546 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.546 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.053, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L4lBje7mMsRa for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68596622B for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKzeS-0008I2-JD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:24 +0000 Received: from athedsl-4376708.home.otenet.gr ([79.130.56.116]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:24 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-4376708.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 20008 install problem: "Could not find the root block device in ." Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:58:14 +0300 Message-ID: References: <488350D2.7030103@gmail.com> <48836BBD.4050801@j-schmitz.net> <4883708E.4010201@gmail.com> <48837219.8020200@j-schmitz.net> <4884BE71.1080606@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-4376708.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080715) In-Reply-To: <4884BE71.1080606@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7fe2228a-e3f5-4295-b029-d61abaf9c885 X-Archives-Hash: 0891ed047bc2aa4a504da62c035725da Jarry wrote: > [...] > It looks to me like loader can not find my *cdrom*! > It should be /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd, because /dev/sda and /dev/sdb > are my hard-drives. When I enter shell and look into /dev, there > is actually no /dev/sdc, and no /dev/sdd. Only /dev/sda1(-sda12) > and /dev/sdb1(-sdb12). > > But that is strange, because kernel just booted from CD, > so it *must* see it! Unfortunately, it's the BIOS that does this. The kernel cannot boot by itself by some magical means. The BIOS must boot it. > Can anyone help me please to fix this mess? > Is it really so that Gentoo 2008 can not boot from sata-cd-drive? Your hard drives are SATA as well (on the same controller) and only the CD drive can't be found? That's strange. I suggest opening a bug about it. If your hard drives aren't SATA or aren't on the same controller as the CD drive, try to load the kernel module for your controller. Google is your friend here (to find out which kernel module to try for your chipset.)