I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and
I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian
& winxp.
I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo
wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made
/dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS.
The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the
machine I have 2 problems:
(i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough
fixed, but still an installation bug)
(ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device.
>> Determining root device...
>> Mounting root...
mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument
!! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
The grub boot lines are:
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ?
thanks!
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