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.
> 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 > 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". > 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-user" > 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. -- Neil Bothwick The man who dies with the most toys is dead.
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