[Evms-devel] evms and gentoo linux

[Wayne N. <wni...@cg...>]

Hi, I am new to EVMS and this list.  I have gone over the archives and 
read relevant posts.  Here is my situation:

I built gentoo 2005.1, followed the Gentoo and EVMS installation guides 
( used the gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_evms).  I used genkernel --evms 
to build the kernel and initramfs.  The kernel and initramfs are the 
parameters used in grub.conf, so grub.conf looks like:

title Gentoo ...
kernel /kernel-....-r10  root=/dev/ram0 realroot=/dev/evms/root 
init=/linuxrc udev doevms2
initrd /initramfs...-r10

where the gentoo version is 2.6.12 r10.

I did the layout almost exactly like the EVMS HOWTO with /, /boot, and 
swap.  /boot is ext3 raid1, swap is raid0, and / is reiserfs raid1.

my fstab has

/dev/evms/boot 	/boot	ext3		noatime	1 2
/dev/evms/root	/		reiserfs	noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/evms/swap	none	swap	sw			0 0



I changed the /etc/init.d/checkroot script as suggested by the HOWTO.

I changed the device_size_prompt value to "no" in the /etc/grub.conf 
file in the lvm2 section.

Upon boot, I get device_size_prompt message saying I should check the 
device_size_prompt value and set to no if it is a raid device.
I then get:
 >> Determining root device...
!! Block device /dev/evms/root is not a valid root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.

When I then go into a shell, it appears that evms_activate has 
executed.  The /dev/evms directory is there but only has swap and dm.

I am not sure what I have wrong here, so any help is much appreciated.

Wayne