ERROR: root failed to start …permission denied

[gentooly]

see https://postimg.cc/XZLZVJ2c for screenshot

[Goverp]

This isn't anything to do with kernels or, strictly speaking, booting. Your kernel has started successfully, and you system is now starting services through OpenRc. For example, it's checked your file systems. However, OpenRc is having problems. As it starts each service, it should write a message to the console (usually with some pretty colour. It uses a program "eend" to issue the message (including handling pretty colours). For some reason, "eend" (or to give it its full name, /lib/rc/bin/eend) isn't readable or executable, and for that matter, your photo shows several others from that library are giving problems. The files should have filemode 755 and be owned by root:root. It appears they aren't.

My guess is that something went wrong in un-tarring your stage3 to /mnt/gentoo. You need to reboot from your installation medium, mount your Gentoo root partition as /mnt/gentoo, and have a look at the file permissions for that directory. They probably indicate a wider problem, so it would probably be worth posting the output of

[gentooly]

[[ the old monitor and the camera aint got no colour rhythm, but it was there before it focussed it out]]

thanks for your quick response

do you mean?

[Goverp]

Sorry for not returning sooner! Err, not sure what's going wrong. The output shows the files ought to be readable by the kernel. As above, the kernel has started OK, but the system is failing at the point where OpenRc is trying to run the "root" service /etc/init.d/root, which has the job of remounting your "/" partition read/write. But it can't execute those programs because of permission errors. But this should be the kernel calling "/sbin/init", as root, and root should be able to run everything.

I presume that you've taken the easy options - no initramfs, a prebuilt kernel or you've rolled you own with F2FS support included, not through modules. Could you put up partition display (cfdisk or whatever), and your /etc/fstab please, and anything else that might help Also how you are booting (GRUB, rEFInd, EFI stub, something else ...)
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[gentooly]

okay it's now morning here

cfdisk

fstab

"and root should be able to run everything.' <nods>

I think I have taken the easy option but my noobness makes me unsure, too nooby to know what else will help,

grub booting

thank you

[pjp]

Instead of posting images, it is easier to look through text. wgetpaste is one tool for that.

My guess is that your options for mounting root are not correct. Instead of noatime,user try defaults or defaults,noatime if you really want noatime for root.
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[gentooly]

goodness
a simple "defaults" worked

I am now at the prompt, my journey continues.

thank you very much for your help,

perhaps the guide needs a look at, I did't come up with the previous by myself,

[Chiitoo]

gentooly,

The handbook seems to suggest 'noatime' only for root, so perhaps 'user' was what was causing the issue.

On another note, I've removed the website from your profile and the one from your previous post here, since you are a rather new user here, and those sites seem to have nothing to do with Gentoo Linux, Linux in general, this issue, or anything at all particularly relevant.

We get hundreds of new users in very short time with the sole purpose of advertising their unrelated sites (also known as 'spam'), so including URLs such as yours as a new user is a very effective method to get your account banned. :]

Also, as mentioned, please use text instead of pictures since pictures hosted elsewhere tend to expire, and many do not even want to venture to external sites (and many sites are bad with no JavaScript or have other problems with them).

Enjoy your Gentoo!

Thank you!
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Kindest of regardses.

[gentooly]

sure thing, thanks

[Goverp]

The relatime/noatime etc. things are a bit historic these days - the kernel default is lazytime and relatime, which keeps cached times up to date, but only does the relatime write to disk once a day or on sync behaviour. Unless you really need either strictatime or noatime, just leave them all off.
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