In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look
> closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error
> message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my "real_root"
> is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda4 .
>
> I think it must be a limitation on genkernel part, although I was unable to
> find anything related to this issue up to now.
It appears as if genkernel can only boot off real, not extended
partitions.
> So now I have rearranged the partitions, using just the first ones. Now I
> got a stuck splash image, no initialization shown, no progress bar
> moving... but this is another problem, probably I forgot to change
> something to reflect the new partitioning scheme.
It could be a tty problem. If I use genkernel unchanged I get a weird
splash screen and the boot dialog writes all over my splash screen. What
I have to do evey time an emerge updates my genkernel is:
edit my /usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc file
search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
# exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1
Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
and it is ready to go.
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Regards,
Gregory.
