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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:27:04
Message-Id: 4C914815.6050608@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick by Jake Moe
1 Jake Moe wrote:
2 > Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support.
3 >
4 > As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in
5 > question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows
6 > that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not
7 > sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with
8 > udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the
9 > root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it.
10 >
11 > Jake Moe
12 >
13 >
14
15 The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted. Either use the command
16 "mount" with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted.
17
18 Dale
19
20 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com>