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["David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>]

>Hi there!
>
>I recently received my new notebook and I am planing to install Sourcemage 
>on it. But sadly I am stuck quite at the beginning of the 
>installation-process.
>I boot from the CD with the newest image (9.3 i386), hit enter and then get 
>to the initrd menu. There I try "Continue booting" but then I receive this 
>message: "Unable to boot without a root"
>I tried a older image (9.2 with 2.4 kernel) but this version even got my pc 
>crashed after saying something about beein unable to mount the cd-rom.
>My laptop has only an external CD-drive which is connected via firewire.
>
>Does anybody have an idea how I could solve this problem?
>Thanks in advance

Well you can manually try to specify a root device in the initrd menu
you might have to go to a shell and see what's under /dev
I'm not familiar with firewire and what support is needed in the kernel
for it and if that support is available on the iso...

might need to file a bug to add that.

- David Brown

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