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ElderLars
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 Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: "Please specify a device to boot" |
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Hello!
I have donwloaded and burned the live-cd installer. And tried to install it but it did not go as planed.
>>Determining roor device...
!! The root bock device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
what do they meen? Whats wrong? What should i do?
My computer is a:
intel core 2 duo. E6600 @2,4Ghz
Asus P5B
Samsung Spinpoint 250Gb SATA
I have WinXP sp2 installed and what to keep it. I have now one big patition but i will now split it.
some thing like this:
Windows 50GB
Gentoo 50GB
Data 150GB (That is MP3 and stuff) |
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nixnut
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There's some output just a bit earlier that might be useful. If you got unknown block(0,0) like here that means your kernel is missing a driver. Make sure you included the driver for your ide or sata controller in the kernel.
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wynn
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nixnut: | Quote: | | There's some output just a bit earlier that might be useful. If you got unknown block(0,0) like here that means your kernel is missing a driver. Make sure you included the driver for your ide or sata controller in the kernel. |
Things are worse than that and better than that.
You need to jump through hoops just to get the CD to boot and then the usual kernel, 2.6.17-r8, won't boot.
These threads will make it clear and give advice on how to proceed:
Experimental & final release (GentooCD with JMicron-supp.)
Intel Core 2 system woes (JMicron, JMB363 and other...)
Roundup: Kernel with JMicron support (JMB363, 361, 360, 36x)
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ElderLars
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Thanks for all the fast ansers! The links you gave me was a bit over my head(Iam quite new to linux). But if i get things right ist my sata hdd and my sata DVD that is not suported. So i will download and try this one:
2.6.18-rc4-no2 "To be..." | (Super Fix/Stability Attempt?)
maby to morrow or so. |
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wynn
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I think you will probably want to download the LiveCD which you will find in the first thread "Experimental & final release (GentooCD with JMicron-supp.)" as it will boot without problems.
Otherwise you will have to boot the Gentoo 2006.1 LiveCD with | Code: | | gentoo all-generic-ide |
This is from another thread New Dual Core build
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Installing Gentoo
