On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:49:30 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Any reason you bury the iniitrd in the options list rather that having it
> on a separate line?
None in particular. Perhaps I was following an example. I don't think it
matters much, especially as I rarely need to change it.
> This
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:01:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Did you also remove the leading slash from the kernel? I'm still
> > > running 5.4 but I tried removing the slashes from the kernel and
> > > initrds and it booted fine. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be ready
> > > when 5.7+ goes
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:32:23 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
[Snip much interesting stuff]
My motherboard is also Asus: an X99-A. I haven't overwritten the UEFI BIOS
kernel image for quite a while; not since I arrived at a stable layout of
/boot.
This is my /boot layout:
# tree /boot
On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:57:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:29:50 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Did you also remove the leading slash from the kernel? I'm still running
> > 5.4 but I tried removing the slashes from the kernel and initrds and it
> > booted fine.
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:29:50 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:07:40 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Nope. Didn't help. All I have now is dredging through the kernel
> > > config yet again, or possibly even trying an initrd. I hope I'm not
> > > being forced down that road
On 09/06/2020 12:07, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:56:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> # cat /boot/loader/entries/30-gentoo-5.7.1.conf
> title Gentoo Linux 5.7.1initrd=/intel-uc.img
> linux /vmlinuz-5.7.1-gentoo
> options root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 initrd=/intel-uc.img net.ifnames=0
>
On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:07:40 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Nope. Didn't help. All I have now is dredging through the kernel
> > config yet again, or possibly even trying an initrd. I hope I'm not
> > being forced down that road after all these years.
>
> It was so simple, and the clue was
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:56:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:46:43 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Other than that, the naming scheme may have changed but I don't know
> > > about
> > > this. For better future-proofing, use a UUID of your root partition
> > > rather
> >
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 16:45:56 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Peter.
>
> Either an annoyance, or some potentially useful info:
>
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 15:46:43 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I'll try this in a minute - thanks for the idea. I've stuck with device
> > names so far
Hello, Peter.
Either an annoyance, or some potentially useful info:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 15:46:43 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'll try this in a minute - thanks for the idea. I've stuck with device
> names so far because (i) I can read them, and (ii) I can't ever have
> more than one NVMe
On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:46:43 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Other than that, the naming scheme may have changed but I don't know about
> > this. For better future-proofing, use a UUID of your root partition rather
> > than a device name.
> >
> > root=UUID=...
> >
> > You can get this UUID
On Monday, 8 June 2020 16:32:07 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
> Sounds like missing drivers. oldconfig didn't do everything it was
> supposed to. Moving across multiple major versions, this is to be
> expected. A lot of names of things have changed.
>
> Do a comparison of your configuration between
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:38:03 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > # cat /boot/loader/entries/30-gentoo-5.7.1.conf
> > title Gentoo Linux 5.7.1
> > linux /vmlinuz-5.7.1-gentoo
> > options root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 initrd=/intel-uc.img net.ifnames=0
> > raid=noautodetect
> >
> > That file hasn't changed, other
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:06 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> Is there something special for me to set in the kernel config to enable it to
> find the root partition? I copied the config from 5.4.38, ran oldconfig and
> followed most of the suggested answers; but it won't boot.
>
>
On 08/06/2020 11:06, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> Is there something special for me to set in the kernel config to enable it to
> find the root partition? I copied the config from 5.4.38, ran oldconfig and
> followed most of the suggested answers; but it won't boot.
Sounds like
Afternoon all,
Is there something special for me to set in the kernel config to enable it to
find the root partition? I copied the config from 5.4.38, ran oldconfig and
followed most of the suggested answers; but it won't boot.
# cat /boot/loader/entries/30-gentoo-5.7.1.conf
title Gentoo Linux
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