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From: Richard Watson <waty@×××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:56:50
Message-Id: 1130622710.10984.5.camel@localhost
1 Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD
2 drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go
3 OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block
4 Device is unspecified or not detected " and then I'm offerred to either
5 shell or specify a /dev. I've tried gentoo-nofb dopcmcia ide=nodma but
6 no luck. I'm a bit stuck at this point does anyone have any suggestions
7 how I could make the install CD boot? Thanks, Richard
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