Hi Raffaele,
may be this could give some insight of was is happening.
You said, you are able to ssh into your PC.
I would try the following: Boot the PC, ssh into it and disable the
start of X. Boot again: Are you getting the console login
successfully?
Can you check, whether /dev , /proc , /sys and other directories of a
special function are created and filled correctly?
Are the permissions ok?
Is /run available and setup correctly?
Are there any leftovers from the root@hd in /etc/fstab?
If you get to console successfully, is it possible to start X from
the commandline? What is printed on the terminal?
What does X.log say?
Hopefully we will find something to fix that problem!
Cheers!
Meino
On 06/08 04:02, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to switch an existing and fully working HDD, MBR-based ~amd64
> LXDE/Kodi setup to a 500Gb SSD. I also took the opportunity to dual boot
> Gentoo with Win10 on the same SSD. As suggested by the Wiki [1] I first
> installed Win letting it GPT-partition the SSD and leaving some empty space
> for a Gentoo ext4 root partition. Then I copied the Gentoo root from the HDD
> to the SSD ('cp -a' except /dev, /sys and /proc which I recreated empty on
> the SSD), UEFI-booted a SysRescue USB and installed GRUB2 to the
> Windows-created ESP. Now, while the chain-loaded Windows boots happily, I'm
> not able to get any GUI or terminal interface for SSD-booted Linux. The old,
> HDD-based installation is still available and running fine.
>
> In details:
>
> 1. GRUB starts and shows the linux/windows choices, select linux
> 2. The screen changes to 'loading linux-x.x.x', the disk light shows
> activity, I have indirect evidence that the OpenRC init reaches conclusion,
> but the screen does not change
> 3. I am able to SSH into the PC, all partitions are mounted, everything
> looks fine
> 4. Xorg.0.log shows NVIDIA driver was loaded but probably not executed,
> all the NVIDIA lines are missing
> 5. Only /dev/nvidiactl is present, /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidia-modeset
> are missing
> 6. Syslog shows that the NVIDIA driver was loaded by the kernel, no crash
> 7. CTRL-ALT-Fn apparently has no effect
> 8. I'm sure the kernel is fine for this NVIDIA driver because the HDD
> installation works with it, nevertheless I recompiled and reinstalled the
> kernel and NVIDIA drivers to the SSD from the SSH, no change
>
> Before I give up and reinstall Gentoo from scratch on the SSD what else could
> I try? I can share the logs if needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raffaele
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Dual_boot_with_Windows_7/8
