Hi all, First, I did a google search to see if I could find out anything that might help. My patience wanes after a number of searches so, you'll have to pardon me 'cause I'm looking for a quick answer if anyone knows one.
I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron XPS laptop. It came with Windows Vista and I never set it up - I did get to the initial screen for setting it up, but that was because I wasn't quick enough on the draw hitting F2 to get into setup. Anyway, I followed the Gentoo Handbook, like I've done numerous times. On booting the live CD, my hard drive is recognized - it's a SATA drive. Following all the steps in the Handbook, I got no error messages. When I get to the part where I install the bootloader, it installs okay. I have 4 partitions sda1 is boot, sda2 is swap sda3 is / and sda4 is home. My /boot/grub/device.map file shows as: (hd0) /dev/sda. When I boot to the hard drive, the boot process gets to the point where it says: Determining root device ... Then it says: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata support has been built in. Any guidance would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
