On 3/9/06, TN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and > I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian > & winxp. > > I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo > wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made > /dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS. > > The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the > machine I have 2 problems: > > (i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough > fixed, but still an installation bug) > > (ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device. > >> Determining root device... > >> Mounting root... > mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument > !! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again > !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. > > > The grub boot lines are: > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 > > This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ? > > thanks!
>From the gentoo handbook located here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 Note: If your root filesystem is JFS, you must add " ro" to the kernel line since JFS needs to replay its log before it allows read-write mounting. I don't use JFS so I dobn't know exactly how to do it but this is what I got from searching google. Kirby -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
