Hello, Walter. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:14:55AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:24:32AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote
> Sorry, mdev is not for you, it looks like udev is a mandatory > dependancy for lvm2. I tried "emerge -pv lvm2" and it came back with... > waltdnes@d530 ~ $ emerge -pv lvm2 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-fs/udev-151-r4" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - sys-fs/udev-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) > /etc/portage/package.mask: > I'll update my instructions to mention this. Thanks for your help. > Even a negative result, i.e. knowing what doesn't work, is one more > piece of information in my quest. It seems it's not quite as simple as that. I've looked at it again, and after booting (unsuccessfuly (without non-root partitions)), the devices /dev/md-0, /dev/md-1, ........ existed. Also existing was the directory /dev/mapper, containing devices like /dev/mapper/vg-usr. (They're sort of symlinks, I think). When I mounted all of these LVM partitions by hand, my system worked (modulo the services which had failed to start). So I then modified my /etc/fstab to use /dev/mapper/vg-usr, and my system came up (almost). What didn't work was X-Windows - when I started it, the keyboard and mouse were dead. (Good job the reset button still worked.) I don't know if booting this way loses any LVM functionality. I haven't tested that out yet. I suspect it will. The only other wierd thing was, when I restarted my "working" system, eth0 was missing. When I rebooted, it was there again. > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
