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(Sorry if this message appears twice, I don't think I mailed it |
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correctly the first time) |
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Hi, I am trying to intall gentoo on a Thinkpad X41 tablet, and am |
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having some difficulties. |
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I first partitionned my hard drive in knoppix, my partitions go from |
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sda1 to sda5. I then made a gentoo 2006.1 min install liveUSB (the X |
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series laptops have no cdrom) as per the instructions on |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml |
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Booting from the USB drive, I start the gentoo kernel with "gentoo |
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dobladecenter doscsi" |
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The output I can see now (there was more before, but I can't seem to |
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scroll up) is: |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1 |
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>> No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices... |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda1 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda2 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda3 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda1 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda2 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda3 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6 |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb |
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>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1 |
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!! Could not find CD to boot, something else needed! |
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>> Loading keymaps |
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<snipped keymap stuff> |
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>> Keeping default keymap |
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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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When I type /dev/sdb: |
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boot() :: /dev/sdb1 |
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>> Mounting root... |
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mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 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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Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell... |
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boot() :: |
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If I go into the shell, I can see that /dev/sdb1 and /newroot both |
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exist, and manually running "mount /dev/sdb1 /newroot/" (with and |
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without -t vfat) gives the same error message: |
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mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /newroot/ failed: Invalid argument |
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Where do I go from here? |
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Thanks, |
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Henk Boom |
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