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 In all the noise, and seemingly outdated info, I picked out the use of the "proper" LVM path (/dev/VG/LV), and the dolvm2 kernel option.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