On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:40:50 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > There's your problem right there. Your device-mapper can't work > > with baselayout-1. So, your options: > > > > Upgrade to baselayout-2 and openrc. > > Done, following > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml > > No joy. > > After '*Autoloaded 24 module(s)' in the boot console there's the bit > '*lvm uses addon code which is deprecated' followed by '*Setting up > the LVM...*Checking local filesystems...' /dev/sda1 passes but > fsck.ext2 can't find /dev/sdb1,2 so /var and /home don't get mounted > and the system is crippled, although I can still login and mount by > hand.
What does that have to do with device-mapper and lvm? /dev/sd* are physical block devices, not lvm's problem. Check you have support built for whatever those drives are > > device-mapper has moved into lvm2 (as lvm is the primary consumer > > of device-mapper). If device-mapper is not installed according to > > portage, and you have files left, then they are orphans left over > > because of CONFIG_PROTECT and can be deleted. Then emerge lvm2 > > I removed /etc/conf.d/device-mapper and /etc/init.d/device-mapper. I > emerged lvm2 and lvm is 'started', according to '/etc/init.d/lvm > status'. Question: Is there supposed to be an lvm2 in init.d? I just > have lvm. The package is called lvm2. The script it installs is lvm > IIRC in a thread from a few months ago there was a tip about putting > the 'pause <secs>' command into a certain config file, which I can't > recall. Or was it 'delay <secs>' or 'time <secs>' ? This was meant for > the hardware to catch its breath so to speak and allow the system to > find the SD card. This was about the same time I noticed that SD > support was missing from the kernel. So maybe it was the the delay I > added to that script, which may have disappeared in an etc-update > session, and not the SD support after all. Grabbing straws here ;( Is sdb an SD device? Is the module loaded? And if you let such an important thing get trashed by etc-update, then you only have yourself to blame. That'll teach you :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
