> > With baselayout2 and openrc, you need to explicitly put lvm into the boot
Wow! I didn't even realize lvm was in init.d. There's nothing in the doc about it. So I went ahead and added to the boot-level and rebooted. Same as before with (looks like) one addition: ... *The lvm init-script is written for baselayout-2! [!!] *Please do not use it with baselayout-1! So I removed lvm from boot level and just did a static /etc/init.d/lvm start and got the exact msg as above. ... How did I only get baselayout-1? I used the latest tarballs. And what init-script should I use? FWIW only one device, the SD card, can't be found and it is listed about 20 times in the boot console before the LVM gives up. Hold on, here's /etc/conf.d/lvm: #LVM should normally only be started after mdraid is available #this is because LVM physical volumes are very often MD devices RC_AFTER="mdraid" #vim: ft=gentoo-conf-d Well, I don't have mdraid, as far as I know. I'll just comment out that line and see where it leads. mw