Bug 164870 – gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 - EVMS is not activated properly on boot

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ole Marius Kaarigstad 2007-02-01 17:04:52 UTC]

After upgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 I get an error message saying that the root device is not found, prompting me for a valid root device. If I type "shell", I find that the only content of /dev/evms is the "dm" dir.
I use genkernel to compile the kernel and activate EVMS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Downgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6 "solves" the problem.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-01 17:19:25 UTC]

Don't use make oldconfig and don't recycle old .configs between kernel versions.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161380 ***

[Comment 2 Ole Marius Kaarigstad 2007-02-02 15:56:25 UTC]

Tried a second time, and this time I was doing a fresh install.
Same result.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-02 16:01:01 UTC]

Attach your kernel .config and your bootloader configuration here, tell us which hardware and which driver are you using for your SATA/IDE/whatever, we can't guess.

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-02-02 16:26:40 UTC]

Do you by any chance use sys-fs/evms for this?

[Comment 5 Ole Marius Kaarigstad 2007-02-07 08:13:20 UTC]

Upgrading to sys-fs/evms-2.5.5-r5 before running genkernel solved the problem for me.