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On Friday 13 July 2007 20:19:33 Hendrik Boom wrote: |
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> A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I |
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> was unable to boot the new system. |
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> When I boot, it fails as follows: |
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> >> Activating mdev |
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> >> Determining root device |
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> |
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> !! Block device /dev/mapper/lovesong-gentoo is not a valid block device |
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> !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected |
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> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell |
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> boot() :: |
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Have you looked at: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_an_LVM2_root_partition |
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? |
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In all the noise, and seemingly outdated info, I picked out the use of |
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the "proper" LVM path (/dev/VG/LV), and the dolvm2 kernel option. |
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Mike Williams |
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