I have tried 4 different kernels starting at 2.6.9-gentoo-something and the most recent being 2.6.10-gentoo-r5. (sorry, they didn't work so I deleted them) devfs must be enabled and compiled in to boot successfully. The error is cannot read superblock on /dev/sda3. (Sda3 is / on a WD SATA drive attached to a 3ware 7002 SATA RAID with RAID-1 mirrored drives.) It also complains that the filesystem is ext2 but the filesystem is actually ext3. After the failure it drops to the "fsck the filesystem prompt" and suggests using a different/alternate superblock. It does show the messages during boot that it recognizes the adapter and drives and in fact mounts the same filesystem (/sda3) read-only. It is remountable read-write. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.change grub.conf to boot udev (add gentoo=nodevfs, remove root=/dev/ram0 and real_root=/dev/sda3 flags.) 2. 3. Actual Results: previously documented error
you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to
As a comment of support - I have experienced exactly the same on 3ware9000 SATA raid5 controller (2.6.9-r14 kernel on amd64 dual opteron) on my first, and only try of udev. I have deleted udev since, so can't provide more information.
i do have exactly the same problem with a amd64 system and a raid0. it's reproducable always while doing a system backup (see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312817.html which doesn't inlcude the /dev/*). it has nothing to do with the backup script but solely with udev. if i boot the system with gentoo=noudev, i.e. using devfs it actually boots. i could provide as much info as you want me to, i got it back working (somehow after booting it once with devfs udev is back working). nevertheless i'm not able to boot a backup of my laptop (udev) extracted on a usb harddisk. same error as the author of this bug, but the device /dev/sda1 is missing. i'd really appreciate any help in solving this issue as i'm not the only one who uses my backup script.
that sounds like a genkernel issue
This bug disappeared with kernel 2.6.11
