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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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