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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:05:24
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0510291752060.21717@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio by Richard Watson
1 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote:
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3 > Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD
4 > drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go
5 > OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block
6 > Device is unspecified or not detected " and then I'm offerred to either
7 > shell or specify a /dev. I've tried gentoo-nofb dopcmcia ide=nodma but
8 > no luck. I'm a bit stuck at this point does anyone have any suggestions
9 > how I could make the install CD boot? Thanks, Richard
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11 What sort of PCMCIA card? SCSI?
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