On 9 September 2011, at 04:50, Moshe Kamensky wrote: > ... > I was happy to soon... It now boots, but after asking me about keyboard > layout, it tries to find the cdrom and fails, with messages like: > > Looking for CDROM > > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda1 > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda2 > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda3 > Attempting to mount media /dev/sda4 > Media not found > Determining root device... > Could not find the root block device in . > Please specify another value or: press Enter for the same, type "shell > for a shell, or "q" to skip > > (The /dev/sda* are partitions on my HD).
What CD are you trying to boot? I would try different LiveCDs until you find one that works. The Gentoo wiki suggests that an older version of the Gentoo Minimal CD might work (2008.0 or earlier), otherwise try SystemRescueCD, Knoppix, Ubuntu and others. I appreciate that Google may not easily distinguish between 8 or 12 completely different hardware configurations all called "macbook", but the information is out there. http://www.google.com/search?q=gentoo%20install%20macbook%20pro If yours is a newish model then click on the "more search tools" link on the left hand side and choose "past year". This discusses booting a MacBoo Pro in some detail: http://myhumblecorner.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/gentoo-and-a-little-ubuntu-on-a-macbook-pro-53/ It probably won't be your model, but it's worth checking. When installing Gentoo the important thing is getting booted from LiveCD to a command prompt. If you can achieve that then you know that you can surely install Gentoo, because from then onwards you're only unpacking a tarball and setting up a bootloader. Stroller.
