Mick wrote:
On Monday, 19 August 2019 07:41:20 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote:
You have 3 drives attached while you're trying to boot. The kernel seems to
come to a stop after /dev/sdc. It may need some driver for this device/fs.
I'd start by unplugging any drives which do not contain the system you're
trying to boot, then go through a step by step process of installing/setting
up openrc, DM and boot loader.
sdc is an external USB drive, I'll try to unplug that.
The DM is not necessary to boot your system, but while you chrooted into it
you might as well install and set up sddm as a DM - there are others but be
careful they do not try to bring in 2/3 of Gnome and its dependencies too.
I'll do but first I want to see a working terminal, too much stuff to debug
otherwise.
Re-install GRUB or whichever boot manager you use and make sure it points to
the correct kernel. If you're on an UEFI system and you boot directly using
the kernel EFI stub, re-run efibootmgr to specify the kernel UEFI will boot
with, but first run fsck.vfat on the EFI partition just in case this fs was
messed up too.
It's grub2, non-UEFI. I don't normally reinstall it when I update the kernel, I only run
grub-mkconfig. I did the same this time.
Make sure you are using a kernel set up for openrc.
Good catch, although I'm not sure where to find that info in the available kernel log.
I'll look better, I need to stop it from scrolling.
In /etc/rc.conf set up a log file and temporarily enable logging. If any
openrc scripts fail and can't boot, you will able to look at the logs when you
chroot back into it - using less/cat/plain text editor. ;-)
Good idea.
I hope the above should allow you to boot, or at least arrive at some
meaningful failure message to resolve.
One of the last things printed in the kernel log is "random: crng init done". The random
service is part (possibly the last service) of the boot runlevel which is entered after
the sysinit runlevel. So apparently a lot of openrc stuff has already started
successfully. Instead, nothing from the default runlevel is output. I'll re-check those
services.
raffaele
