[gentoo-user] [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!

[Christopher E]

sorry if you are geting this twice as I have also posted to the amd64 list

Hello All,

I figure I will also give this information to this list as I was asked
some questions from the amd list.

Frist part is this is not a live cd, it is booting off of the hard drive.

Next thing is all of the stuff here loaded right when usings a livecd,
I got the list by doing a lsmod and then writeing them into the file
that coldplug uses to automatic load them as this is the stuff that
the live cd loaded / detected.

The hard drives that are being used is SATA (in the bios I have it as
IDE as I don't care to use raid or arrays, the motherboard is a Asus
K8V Delux SE (its the one with talking boot up and also the one that
has a wireless card slot init)

If there is any more questions I could answer to help with figureing
out these issue please ask!

Sincerely,
Christopher


On 4/20/06, Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> Christopher E wrote:
> > hello All,
> >
> > I have been for the last couple of days (4) days trying to get this
> > system up and running and I am having a number of probs and below is a
> > list of them
> >
> > I get all these errors when booting up:
> >
> > !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected
> > at the prompte I can type in /dev/sda6 and it will boot then the
> > following comes after this
> >
> > mkdir: Cannot creat directory '/newroot/tmp/.initrd':
> >
> Looks to me like the install disk can't find a hard drive.  What kind of
> hard drive/system is this?  The other failures I think are pretty common
> on most boot/install/live media as it tries to load many different
> modules to get a basic system up for you to continue the install.
>
> > Failed to load pcspkr [!!]
> > Failed to load skge
> > Failed to load ati_remote
> > Failed to load dm_mirror
> > Failed to load dm_mod
> > Failed to load pdc_adma
> > Failed to load sata_mv
> > Failed to load ahci
> > Failed to load sata_qstor
> > Failed to load sata_uli
> > Failed to load sata_sil24
> > Failed to load lidata
> > Failed to load sl811_hcd
> > Failed to load usbcore
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > christopher
> >
> > PS: this help is NOT for personal or commaul gain its for a non-profit
> > org project
> >
> >
>
>
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> Mark Haney
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