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Hi all, |
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First, I did a google search to see if I could find out anything that |
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might help. My patience wanes after a number of searches so, you'll |
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have to pardon me 'cause I'm looking for a quick answer if anyone knows one. |
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I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron XPS laptop. It came with Windows |
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Vista and I never set it up - I did get to the initial screen for |
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setting it up, but that was because I wasn't quick enough on the draw |
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hitting F2 to get into setup. |
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Anyway, I followed the Gentoo Handbook, like I've done numerous times. |
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On booting the live CD, my hard drive is recognized - it's a SATA drive. |
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Following all the steps in the Handbook, I got no error messages. When |
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I get to the part where I install the bootloader, it installs okay. I |
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have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home. |
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My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda. When I boot to |
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the hard drive, the boot process gets to the point where it says: |
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Determining root device ... |
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Then it says: |
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/dev/sda3 is not a valid root device |
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I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times |
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and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata |
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support has been built in. |
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Any guidance would be appreciated. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org |
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