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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:53:45
Message-Id: 200704300746.53254.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop by Colleen Beamer
1 Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext Colleen Beamer:
2
3 > I have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home.
4 > My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda. When I boot to
5 > the hard drive, the boot process gets to the point where it says:
6 > Determining root device ...
7 >
8 > Then it says:
9 > /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
10
11 Sata support may not be enough. Since all the SATA stuff has been put into
12 the SCSI subsystem, you would need support for SCSI disks (and maybe CDRoms
13 as well):
14
15 CONFIG_SCSI=y
16 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
17 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
18
19 HTH...
20
21 Dirk
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