[gentoo-user] AMD64 Problem (Solved)

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 First, to those who offered help, I thank you for your efforts. I never was able to find a way to get the hard drives connected through the USB to boot. What I ended up doing was to resize and move my Windows partitions on my internal hard drive to

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If anyone has been able to boot from a USB 2.0 drive, I would appreciate some pointers on how to get this installation working. Yes. The fact that you made it to the "VFS: Cannot open root device" message means that you successfully "booted

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/18/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> VFS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block(8,19) > > This means the kernel found your root drive/partition, but couldn't > mount it. Most likely you forgot to c

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block(8,19) This means the kernel found your root drive/partition, but couldn't mount it. Most likely you forgot to compile the filesystem driver *into* your kernel (make sure it is =y and not =

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erik wrote: > I had this problem for a while as well. Adding 'noapic' to my boot > options fixed it for me. I think it's a problem with certain > motherboards, like the Asus M2NPV-VM. Thank you Erik. That worked and allowed me to boot with the Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem...

2006-11-13 Thread Erik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: > I recently got a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ > (dual core). The problem I keep having with both of the Gentoo AMD > 64 CDs (Minimal and Full) is that: 1. Unless I disable the frame > buffer, it will sit there

[gentoo-user] AMD64 problem...

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I recently got a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (dual core). The problem I keep having with both of the Gentoo AMD 64 CDs (Minimal and Full) is that: 1. Unless I disable the frame buffer, it will sit there (forever, I think). 2. Wh