On 12/12/2020 12:32 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > Actually, you have an error or two below. > > On 12/11/2020 6:16 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> No, I did not reformat the /boot partition. I just cd to /boot and run: >> rm -r * > Probably better to wipe the file system. But you talk about moving away > from EFI in another thread, so we'll just say that should this happen > again, you should wipe with mkfs.<fstype> instead of just rm -r. >> >> Yes, this machine is new but I run it for a over 10-days, configured >> most of the programs and it was running without much problems. >> Yesterday, I decided to check some parameters in kernel .config so I run: >> genkernel --menuconfig all >> > Next time, just do this: > > cd /usr/src/linux > make menconfig (or nconfig) > >> * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 4.1.2 >> * Using genkernel configuration from '/etc/genkernel.conf' ... >> * Running with options: --kernel-config=/proc/config.gz all >> >> * Working with Linux kernel 5.4.72-gentoo-x86_64 for x86_64 >> * Using kernel config file '/proc/config.gz' ... >> * >> * Note: The version above is subject to change (depends on config and >> status of kernel sources). >> >> * kernel: >> Initializing ... >> * >> Running 'make clean' ... >> * >> --mrproper is set; Making 'make mrproper' ... >> * >> Will ignore kernel config from '/proc/config.gz' >> * in favor of already existing but different kernel config >> * found in '/usr/src/linux/.config' ... >> * > So you are wrong below. As you can see above, genkernel IS using > /usr/src/linux/.config. I'm not 100% certain, but I THINK genkernel will > compare the config files, and prefer the .config if it is present. >> >> Running 'make oldconfig' ... >> * >> Compiling 5.4.72-gentoo-x86_64 bzImage ... >> >> >> When I exit it it started to compile the kernel (it did not finish) I >> pressed >> "CTRL-C" (interrupted). >> I didn't know then, but running genkernel --menuconfig all >> takes configuration from: >> /etc/kernels/kernel-config-5.4.72-gentoo-x86_64 >> >> not from: /usr/src/linux/.config > No, unless /etc/kernels/kernel-config-<whatever> is NEWER than .config, > and maybe not even then. See above. >> However, NO FILE HAD CHANGED IN /boot >> But this this is the moment, I couldn't boot correctly. > What was the boot error? >> make && make modules_install >> make install >> genkernel --install --kernel-config=/usr/src/linux/.config initramfs >> grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot >> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> >> But nothing had changed. So I tired newer kernel: 5.4.80-gentoo-r1-x86_64 >> But this time I run (without interruptions): >> genkernel --menuconfig all >> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> >> And again nothing changed, root "/" still mounts "ro" >> >> findmnt >> TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS >> / /dev/nvme0n1p4 ext4 ro,relatime >> >> Normally it should be: >> findmnt >> TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS >> / /dev/sda4 ext4 >> rw,noatime,data=ordered > Looks like it's not getting to the root remount stage. The kernel will > almost always boot in ro mode. So you're probably getting stuck in the > emergency shell. Can you see your device in /dev? >>> Does dmesg show the drive being recognised, corresponding drivers being >>> loaded, partitions and filesystems recognised? >> cat dmesg |grep error >> doesn't show any errors >> > What's the last 10 or so lines from dmesg when it fails to boot and goes > to what I'm guessing is the emergency shell? >> I'll try to boot GParted and see what comes up. > > > I don't think gparted is your answer. Sounds to me like something is > causing it to fail in the changeover from your initrd to the actual > drive. If that's the case I bet your partitions are fine. Can you show > us the last 10-15 lines printed on the screen before you get stuck?
The last 10-15 lines are not showing much but there is more (I'm retyping it from the screen) dmesg: (why the line BOOT_IMAGE is Read Only) Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.7.72-gentoo root=UUID=d3229... ro platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db nvme mvme0: missing or invalid SUBNQN field usb 3-4: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 2 but nax is 1 usb 3-4: config 1 has no interface number 1
