On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:45 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:04 -0700, David Boles wrote:
> > on 8/15/2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > The boot process starts on my Thinkpad T61, but stops with:
> > >
> > > WARNING: Cannot find root file system!
> > >
> > > Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue
> > > the boot sequence.
> > >
> > > The Thinkpad currently has only WinXP Home. Where should I
> > > point /dev/root? And why am I seeing this? I thought part of the point
> > > of the Live CD was so that a Windows user could boot it up and try F7
> > > without making any other mods?
> > >
> > > I've run the i686 Live CD with no problem on i686 machines, but they all
> > > had Linux installations.
> >
> >
> > Maybe because the x86_64 live CDs is are DVDs and you don't have a DVD
> > drive? ;-)
>
> No, that's not it. But thanks anyway. 8^P
On further investigation, it appears that the neither the live image nor
the install/rescue image contain the driver for the DVD's controller
card.
I suppose that I can still do a network install. But I also guess that
there is no way to run the live image. Is that correct? And will a
network install find the DVD when it's done?
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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