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midnpowers
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I am just starting to install gentoo and when I put in the CD and boot it, it tells me:
>> The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
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what do I do to specify a device? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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midnpowers,
You possibly have two bootable CDs and and booting from the one the BIOS sees as the second one.
This is unfortunate, because the liveCD looks on the first CD device for its root filesystem.
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midnpowers
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I only have one disk, the liveCD disk I'm starting from scratch with 4 empty hard drives that I just formated |
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nixnut
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| midnpowers wrote: | | I only have one disk, the liveCD disk I'm starting from scratch with 4 empty hard drives that I just formated |
Do you have to optical drives in your system? Like one cdrom and one dvdrom or something like that.
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midnpowers
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I have one cdrom and one old tape drive |
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nixnut
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| midnpowers wrote: | | I have one cdrom and one old tape drive |
Is the tape drive an ide device too? If so, is it the first device on that ide channel?
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midnpowers,
Tell us how the CD is connected to the PC and if you booted from the BIOS or used a boot floppy?
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midnpowers
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| the CD drive is connected via scsi 80 pin and I told bios to boot the CD |
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midnpowers,
The the option at the boot prompt
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midnpowers
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it still doesn't work. All that shows up is
>>Block device doscsi is not a valid root device...
>>The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| 'doscsi' is not a device, naturally. This is a boot option you have to pass to kernel at boot time. |
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