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In the first instance have a look at the 'linux' lines here: |
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https://gist.github.com/smoke/47f5250b9e6f59a5d172 |
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You've missed some critical parameters, like 'cdroot'. |
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 11:01, akater <nuclearspace@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I downloaded a recent (20190925) Minimal Installation amd64 image and |
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> tried to boot into it from a USB device. An old version of |
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> SystemRescueCD is installed alongside and boots fine. |
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> The machine is fairly old and has traditional BIOS and 2048M RAM |
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> My GRUB menuentry for the image is |
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> menuentry "Gentoo Minimal Installation CD 20190925" { |
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> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6dbfd182-36fb-4476-a414-f5a8cca975bb |
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> set iso=/install-amd64-minimal-20190925.iso |
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> loopback loop ${iso} |
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> linux (loop)/boot/gentoo keymap=dvorak nosound nonfs isoloop=${iso} |
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> initrd (loop)/boot/gentoo.igz |
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> } |
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> Boot fails at determining root device: |
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> !! Could not find the root block device in . |
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> I guess menuentry might be misconfigured but I can't figure out what's |
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> wrong with it. Minimal Installation CD is supposed to be bootable even |
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> in the absence of external storage devices, so everything should happen |
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> inside RAM, right? If so, then I don't get what could possibly go wrong |
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> as long as kernel and initrd are found unless there's an issue with |
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> Minimal Installation CD itself. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |