Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Saturday, 15 May 2021 00:54:02 BST John Blinka wrote: > I don’t think it’s a kernel compile issue. I just now used efibootmgr to > create a uefi entry with kernel command line parameters to define the root > fs and initrd. That worked. That result focuses the blame on grub. I'm glad

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:10 PM wrote: > > > Have you recompiled the kernel? Could be a random, erroneous write to > disk or something in the kernel compile didn't go well. I'd suggest also > rebuilding the initrd Yes. Same problems with several kernels and associated initrds, the latter

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:50 AM John Blinka wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy > wrote > >> > >> Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure >> genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initramfs boot >> log to diagnose a failure

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy wrote > > > Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure > genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initramfs boot > log to diagnose a failure in a genkernel initramfs at one time. That’s an intriguing