[SOLVED] Another boot issue

acidbreez · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 24

Hey guys/gals,

I'm installing gentoo on my laptop and I'm having issues at startup, its just stuck on Loading Linux... I've been trying for 2 weeks now reading through all the forums and trying everything y'all have already tried in the past. I have tried the prebuilt kernel and genkernel as well already. I'm sure it's probably just a simple mistake but hopefully someone can help me out.

here is my .config

https://pastebin.com/XW1exZaY

here is my lspci -nnk

https://pastebin.com/6TNwMA6v

pietinger · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:10 pm Post subject:

Please try to disable: CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y

acidbreez · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 24

it is stuck on loading initial ramdisk... now. i will go through your article as well thank you pietinger

acidbreez · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 24

ok so I guess I installed from the x86 tarball instead of the amd64 tarball. after reinstalling with the amd64 setup and followed this wiki

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Framework_Laptop#Freezing_with_6.4_series_kernels

I have gotten past the loading initial ramdisk... screen. Now I am getting this error

https://pastebin.com/WLGv8DqK

pietinger · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:24 pm Post subject:

I guess you are using grub as bootmanager. Grub starts your kernel TOGETHER with an initramfs (generated from dracut). Is this what you want ?

Maybe it is a result of your tryings with different kernels and ALSO our dist-kernel - which is a kernel with associated initramfs.

Maybe read this short article AND also the linked post:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Confusion_with_root%3DPARTUUID%3D_and_root%3DUUID%3D

What I always recommend when installing a new Gentoo system:

First install only our dist-kernel because you should have no problems with it - even if you want to manually configure your kernel. But this you can do as a second step ... AND you have then already a backup-kernel (=dist-kernel) if your manually configured kernel doesnt work.

Maybe read also:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Boot_kernel_via_UEFI
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acidbreez · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 24

Ok so I managed to get it too boot finally. I had to add

pietinger · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: [SOLVED] Another boot issue