System doesn't boot. Stuck at "Booting the kernel"

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grizzo94 · Post by **grizzo94** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 9:48 pm

Hi, so I'm trying for the first time to install Gentoo and of course, so far my experience has been plagued by problems and I'm getting a bit frustrated...
I've decided to set up a systemd based installation, so I followed the Handbook and integrated the missing pieces by also looking at the wiki page dedicated to systemd, but when I turn on my PC Grub 2 fails to boot the kernel.

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Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... Performing relocations... done.
Booting the kernel.

And that's it, it gets stuck there. I want to clarify that my mobo is set in legacy mode so EFI is not the issue and grub-mkconfig correctly found the kernel.

So yeah..that it basically and I don't really know what to do, can somebody give me a hand?
Thank you.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:09 pm

what is the grub or whatever you're using cmd line and what is fstab (or whatever systemd uses for fstab) set as for /root

Edit to add: sounds like it's not finding the /root partition, ie you're pointing to someplace else than the root partition

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:19 pm

Probably missing correct drivers or firmware for your GPU. It'd show a panic message if rootfs was missing.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:38 pm

Might be drivers, highly unlikely firmware.

Next would be to view .config file kernel was built from.

Edit to add: having said the above, I am definitely not a systemd guru, as I abhor it.

DONAHUE · Post by **DONAHUE** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:39 am

grub didn't find the kernel or the kernel can't load, rootfs location not pertinent until the kernel has loaded.
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