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yinkoshaumer
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Joined: 25 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: Dell Precision m65 |
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I was wondering if anyone here has had anyluck w/their Dell Precision m65 and Gentoo. The liveCD boots fine, but I am unsure as to what options to enable in my kernel. It panics everytime and says that there's not a valid root parameter.
I have found these somewhat helpful:
http://pelican.rsvs.ulaval.ca/mediawiki/index.php/Dell_Precision_M70_(in_English)
http://saus.flipp.net/M65.html
The m70 has similar hardware, but not the same. And the m65 article isn't very informative at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here's the exact error
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VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) |
Here's my the boot section from my lilo.conf
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boot = /dev/sda
map = /boot/.map
default=Windows
...
image = /boot/bzImage
root = /dev/sda3
label = Gentoo
read-only
...
other = /dev/sda2
label = Windows
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Cybersorcerer
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Joined: 30 Mar 2004
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Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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Hi just wondering if you still have this problem ?
I am running an M90 with gentoo, i assume it's probably the missing sata support in your kernel but i am not 100% sure.
If this is not the case can you post output of
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Bonham
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| Cybersorcerer wrote: | Hi just wondering if you still have this problem ?
I am running an M90 with gentoo, i assume it's probably the missing sata support in your kernel but i am not 100% sure.
If this is not the case can you post output of
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Your drive gets renamed /dev/hda after boot, instead of /dev/sda as with liveCD. Why I have no idea. |
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