I had this problem with an old Sony laptop where the CD drive was in a base docking unit. The solution was to install from a USB stick and an .IMG file, in my case.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Konrad Neuwirth <kon...@fimsch.net> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently trying to set up 2.13 on a server that is located in a remote > data center. It contains a Lantronix Spider remote management card. As part > of its functions, it allows the user to mount an iso file over the network -- > which will then be exposed to the user as an USB attached storage device. I > downloaded the ISO, mounted it and the system boots the kernel all right. But > it is not able to mount root, so the install process then halts abrupty -- at > the mountroot> prompt. > > Mountroot claims to know about the following devices: > > "md0" "md0s0" "sg0" "sg1" "da0" "mapper/control" "da1" "da0s0" "da0s1" > "da0s2" "da0s3" "da0s4" > > None of those are acceptable as root (using cd9660: as the filesystem). > > Alas, I cannot post more about what hardware the kernel recognizing. All the > error messages of mountroot trying out various devices and failing scrolls > away any remainders of dmesg, and there is no scrollback buffer I could use. > > So: Does anybody have an idea on how I could progress with finding the right > root? > > Thank you kindly, > Konrad >
