Recover from Gentoo postinst fail

[enbymonkey]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Gentoo for the first time. I ran into a problem during the post install step. I had failed to specify a command line in the dracut config. So I found the instructions for it, fixed it. I re-emerged sys-kernel/installkernell. Now, I want to continue the gentoo install from the post install step. Since the initial source code compilation completed successfully (it's quite long), I don't want to restart from scratch.

But, I'm scared to just type emerge --resume, since last time I did that it restarted everything from scratch. The build log says to do emerge --config after fixing the dracut config issue, but when I did that I got "!!! config can only take a single package atom at this time". I don't know what that means (I couldn't find anything online).

Any help is appreciated

[grknight]

The build log says to do emerge --config after fixing the dracut config issue, but when I did that I got "!!! config can only take a single package atom at this time". I don't know what that means (I couldn't find anything online).

The above means to run: emerge --config sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
(or sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin if that was what you installed)

[NeddySeagoon]

enbymonkey,

A package atom is its complete reference.
<category>/<package>:<slot>::<repo>
Often, <package> is all that is required.

emerge can usually operate on groups of packages at the same time but not with --config

[enbymonkey]

Thank you! Running emerge --config sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel worked