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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

David Michael Leo Brown Jr. a écrit :
> > 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

FireWire is not in the ISO kernel. If you wish to have it, please fill a 
bug (http://bugs.sourcemage.org) and tell us what kernel options (in 
.config) are needed to make it work.

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru