(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
<snipped keymap stuff>
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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