In the first instance have a look at the 'linux' lines here: https://gist.github.com/smoke/47f5250b9e6f59a5d172
You've missed some critical parameters, like 'cdroot'. On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 11:01, akater <nuclearsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I downloaded a recent (20190925) Minimal Installation amd64 image and > tried to boot into it from a USB device. An old version of > SystemRescueCD is installed alongside and boots fine. > > The machine is fairly old and has traditional BIOS and 2048M RAM > > My GRUB menuentry for the image is > > menuentry "Gentoo Minimal Installation CD 20190925" { > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root > 6dbfd182-36fb-4476-a414-f5a8cca975bb > set iso=/install-amd64-minimal-20190925.iso > loopback loop ${iso} > linux (loop)/boot/gentoo keymap=dvorak nosound nonfs isoloop=${iso} > initrd (loop)/boot/gentoo.igz > } > > Boot fails at determining root device: > !! Could not find the root block device in . > > I guess menuentry might be misconfigured but I can't figure out what's > wrong with it. Minimal Installation CD is supposed to be bootable even > in the absence of external storage devices, so everything should happen > inside RAM, right? If so, then I don't get what could possibly go wrong > as long as kernel and initrd are found unless there's an issue with > Minimal Installation CD itself. -- Regards, Mick