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IKidnapGnomes
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Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:35 am Post subject: HPPA boot problem. invalid block device? |
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A c3600 workstation was recently given to me. I am trying to install gentoo 2004.3, but I'm running into some problems. After specifying my boot parameters, it starts to load but then produces the error message:
| Code: | >> Determining 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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Im booting with: 0/vmlinux64 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc cdcache looptype=zisofs loop=/zisofs console=tty sti=10/6/2/0 sti_font=VGA8x16 TERM=linux
The harddisk is scsi based, so I assume its location is /dev/sda? Im not really sure, Im rather new to linux in general so pardon the newbishness. But I did get gentoo working on an x86 with minor issues, but nothing like this. Any help would be appreciated. |
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rusty
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Location: St.Louis
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| check your grub.conf and fstab. you might want to reinstall grub on mbr. |
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tfp
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: |
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/dev/sda sounds right. I just set up a c3000 station, I found the handbook to be pretty helpful. Unfortuntatly/Fortuntatly I didn't run into that issue so all I can think of is did you set the partitions up correctly? There is some sort of PA-RISC boot section that is needed.
/dev/sda1 1 8 32953 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-hppa.xml?part=1&chap=4
BTW if you have a Visualize Fx2 graphics card or greater don't bother trying to set up KDE/Gnome. The X11 will never start correctly because of a graphics card driver issue (like not having one, and framebuffer driver will not work), its not worth the time to compile all of that. I found out the hard way  . |
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