On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote:

> Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD
> drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go
> OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block
> Device is unspecified or not detected " and then I'm offerred to either
> shell or specify a /dev. I've tried gentoo-nofb dopcmcia ide=nodma but
> no luck. I'm a bit stuck at this point does anyone have any suggestions
> how I could make the install CD boot? Thanks, Richard

What sort of PCMCIA card? SCSI?


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