I am attempting to install Gentoo on my PowerPC Mac. I have reached the point where I can boot the Live CD (I have no functional CD Drive, so it is from a spare Hard Drive), but after the kernel is loaded, I get a message 'No root found at /dev/hda. It then gives me the options: shell to get into a shell, q to skip, enter to try the same again.
I am attempting to install Gentoo on. No Mountable Filesystems on root after modules. I ended up installing a Debian installation disk to a USB flash. How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported this type of installation? I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is.
Q to skip doesn't work, but it prints a nice warning >> Skipping. This will likely cause a boot error. Then it can't find /newroot in /etc/SOMETHING (I can't remember). The shell won't really help me, if I try: dev/hda (the only thing I can find in /dev that looks like the second internal harddrive I am booting from), I only get the nice warning No mountable filesystems! Within the /boot/yaboot.conf file, the root is by default: root=/dev/ram0. Am I possibly missing a swap partition? I changed the device within the yaboot.conf file to ultra0: as it is for that drive.
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I used dd to copy the entire disk image to the drive, and it acknowledges itself to be a Live CD. The 40 GB hard drive even thinks it only has a 143.2MB capacity with 0 KB free. The only issue is: /dev/cdrom (which it seems to want to access) doesn't exist due to the hardware failure of my internal drive.
The kernel will only even consider mounting valid drives within the /dev structure, so any advice on how to make the CD point to my drive? I ended up installing a Debian installation disk to a USB flash drive using 'sudo dd if='~/Desktop/mini.img' of='/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m', then from a successful install of Debian I could chroot into a Gentoo tarball, and install that way. To reformat hard-drives, I booted into the 'rescue' mode of the Debian install disk.