[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Charles Trois
I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it. Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different. To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Zac Medico
--- Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message Cannot open root device sda11 or unknown-block(0.0). Please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Charles, I'm very, very lost looking at this Yellow Dog stuff. I think I'm going to be no help at all. Please excuse me if I get it totally wrong. Up front I cannot help with the unknown-block(0.0) part. When I've seen the message you're getting coming from grub on my x86 systems it

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Charles Trois
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/22/05, Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry for a slight misunderstanding: I mentioned Yellow Dog just to indicate that it had given confirmation that the 1394 drive is well alive, and that its address is /dev/sdb. mac-fdisk is the command that is prescribed in the