(Sorry if this message appears twice, I don't think I mailed it
correctly the first time)
Hi, I am trying to intall gentoo on a Thinkpad X41 tablet, and am
having some difficulties.
I first partitionned my hard drive in knoppix, my partitions go from
sda1 to sda5. I then made a gentoo 2006.1 min install liveUSB (the X
series laptops have no cdrom) as per the instructions on
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
Booting from the USB drive, I start the gentoo kernel with "gentoo
dobladecenter doscsi"
The output I can see now (there was more before, but I can't seem to
scroll up) is:
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda1
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda2
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda3
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda1
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda2
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda3
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda4
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda5
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sda6
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb
Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/sdb1
!! Could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
Loading keymaps
Keeping default keymap
Determining root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
boot() ::
When I type /dev/sdb:
boot() :: /dev/sdb1
Mounting root...
mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument
!! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
boot() ::
If I go into the shell, I can see that /dev/sdb1 and /newroot both
exist, and manually running "mount /dev/sdb1 /newroot/" (with and
without -t vfat) gives the same error message:
mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /newroot/ failed: Invalid argument
Where do I go from here?
Thanks,
Henk Boom
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