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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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