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Hey all. |
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I have these big fatty Dell blade servers, and the only way I've found |
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to install Gentoo on them is to use a USB CD-ROM drive, but when booting |
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from the CD-ROM, I get: |
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Determining root device... |
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The root block device is unspecified or not detected. |
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Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell... |
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boot() :: |
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I've followed some instructions per: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Latitude_X1#Booting_the_Gentoo_LiveCD |
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... but alas, my drive *is* detected as sr0, and I've followed the rest |
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of the instructions to the tee, even where you mknod, and then the CD |
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fails with a kernel panic. |
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Any idears?!@# |
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Thanks! |
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-Jeff |
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Luke Skywalker: |
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What a piece of junk! |
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Han Solo: |
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She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may |
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not look like much but she's got it where it counts, |
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kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself. |
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