x86_64 live CD won't boot

[Matthew Saltzman]

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

> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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