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On 3/9/06, TN <tnuro@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and |
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> I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian |
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> & winxp. |
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> I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo |
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> wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made |
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> /dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS. |
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> The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the |
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> machine I have 2 problems: |
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> (i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough |
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> fixed, but still an installation bug) |
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> (ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device. |
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> >> Determining root device... |
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> >> Mounting root... |
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> mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument |
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> !! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again |
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> !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. |
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> The grub boot lines are: |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 |
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> init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 |
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> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 |
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> This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ? |
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> thanks! |
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>From the gentoo handbook located here |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 |
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Note: If your root filesystem is JFS, you must add " ro" to the kernel |
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line since JFS needs to replay its log before it allows read-write |
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mounting. |
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I don't use JFS so I dobn't know exactly how to do it but this is what |
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I got from searching google. |
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Kirby |
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