From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDFeQ-0000Dg-Nf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:21:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6O8KTgW017885; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:20:29 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6O8DtpT009321 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:13:55 GMT Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C42350A for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:13:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:13:51 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot error Message-ID: <20070724091351.5f294783@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <248946.54766.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20070723234450.664f9ae2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs55 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_+GsuRUANVsKc7UzIjWB8b92; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 155056bd-c14f-4270-9919-3f61547fff13 X-Archives-Hash: 52dc62f329d4dc7b1ef08e6057e6febc --Sig_+GsuRUANVsKc7UzIjWB8b92 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:14:59 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: > > And how does that comment help the OP? Without a link to the list > > archives, all it tells him is that he is not the first to experience > > this. =20 > Well if the solution is so trivial, I wonder why the devs don't > put the fix into the installation liveCD? The error can be=20 > due to a variety of problems. Which makes it anything but trivial. That would imply a single, simple change. > > Results 1 - 11 of 11 from archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user for "not a > > valid root device". =20 =20 > I went to this site. I have not seen this site before. I do not see an > interface for searching historical postings. Some enlightenment on > searching out the postings would be appreciated. I use Google to search it "search string site:archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-us= er" > Anywhy, even the handbook tells me to use a stage3 install tarball. > HOwever, a stage 3 does not give one the opportunity to build a custom > kernel. So my understanding is I'm going to have to use a stage 1 > tarball, which is not supported any more? A stage 3 not only gives you the opportunity to build a kernel, it requires you to do so (unless you use the live CD kernel which defeats the object of using a customisable distro). Stage 3 only skips the bootstrap and emerge system steps that take so much time with a Stage 1 install. I always do Stage 3 installs now, you can emerge -e system once the system is running to apply your USE and CFLAGS customisations. --=20 Neil Bothwick The man who dies with the most toys is dead. --Sig_+GsuRUANVsKc7UzIjWB8b92 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpbTCum4al0N1GQMRAo9fAJ9+QhVFNBAwg/7KZDAkdyycLZfg5wCeJOUV E3HyO9wyFPI7ErWM7nevFOo= =RTX6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_+GsuRUANVsKc7UzIjWB8b92-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list