x86_64 live CD won't boot

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 18:04:36 UTC 2007


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?  ;-)


-- 

  David

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