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

2021-05-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     genkernel keeps a very detailed log at /run/iniramfs/gksoreport.txt. (or similar) When it exits to the cant find root prompt, type "shell" and you can read/save the report. BillK On 15/5/21 7:10 am, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling

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

2021-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
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

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

2021-05-14 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
--"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." Tommy Douglas May 14, 2021, 15:15 by

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

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
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] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
n On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd,

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

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
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...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
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

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

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd, I

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

2021-05-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/5/21 2:35 pm, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:58:25 -0400, > John Blinka wrote: >> [1 ] >> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack >> wrote: >> >>> Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and >>> initrd should just have the name of the kernel and

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

2021-05-14 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:58:25 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack > wrote: > > > Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and > > initrd should just have the name of the kernel and initrd files (without > > leading "/boot",)