Re: Can't install FC4 on a ABS Mayhem F-15 A40 (Turion 64 MT-32) laptop
"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <[email protected]>
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FYI: The Gentoo 2005.1 Universal Installation CD boots and runs. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 >>>>> "vgi" == Vladimir G Ivanovic <[email protected]> writes: vgi> vgi> Hi, vgi> I can't get either FC4-i386 or FC4-x86_64 to install on my ABS Mayhem vgi> F-15 A40 Turion 64 (MT-32) laptop. I get vgi> vgi> VFS: Cannot open root device "NULL"or unknown block(3,2) vgi> Please append a correct "root=" boot option. vgi> vgi> not far into the boot process. vgi> vgi> Usually this kind of error occurs when the correct disk controller vgi> driver (IDE, SCSI, etc.) for the boot device is not installed. Here vgi> the boot device would be the CDROM drive which is an IDE device. vgi> vgi> I know that the CDROM is found because I get a bunch of boot messages vgi> listing what devices are found, and hdc is there (and the boot vgi> sequence does at least start and continue for a little bit, so stuff vgi> is coming off the CDROM). vgi> vgi> Neither the FC4-i386 nor the FC4-X86_64 rescue disks work. They vgi> exhibit the same behavior as above. The FC3-i386 rescue disk and vgi> CentOS 4.2 (x86-64) both boot a bit more than the FC4 installs, but vgi> then pretty quickly the screen goes black and nothing happens. vgi> vgi> Gnoppix 0.8 (i386) and Knoppix 3.8 (i386) both boot and run fine. vgi> vgi> FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 (amd64) boots and goes into the install process. vgi> vgi> And of course, the Windoze XP Home Edition that came with the laptop vgi> works just fine. vgi> vgi> Is there some boot command line voodoo I can use to get the FC4-x86_64 vgi> (or even the FC4-i386) version to boot properly? Is there anything vgi> else I should do or not do to get the x86_64 install to work? vgi> vgi> Thanks. vgi> vgi> --- Vladimir vgi> vgi> -- vgi> Vladimir G. Ivanovic vgi> Palo Alto, CA 94306 vgi> +1 650 678 8014 vgi> vgi> -- vgi> amd64-list mailing list vgi> [email protected] vgi> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list