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 > > > than a device name. > > > > > > root=UUID=... > > > > > > You can get this UUID with the blkid command. > > > > 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 device in this box. > > 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 in an earlier message. # 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 raid=noautodetect All I had to do was to remove the slash from initrd=/intel-uc.img. I did that in all the .../entries files and 5.4.38 also still boots happily. Thanks to those who offered help. -- Regards, Peter.
