Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 22:03:14 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: >>>> Have you seen this before? >>> No, because I've never used dracut. >> I just had a thought. I have /usr on the root partition now. Do I even >> need a init thingy? > Only you can answer this. > > You don't need it if your kernel image has all the drivers it requires built- > in to mount / and start initializing your hardware. > > Binary distros tend to built a lot of kernel drivers as modules and these > will > not be accessible until / has been mounted. Therefore initrd/initramfs will > include necessary modules, as well as firmware, CPU microcode, etc. to be > able > to run in memory enough of a temporary initial / fs, until the real / becomes > accessible. > > This is explained briefly here: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/ > Kernel#Building_an_initramfs >
I build all drivers in the kernel except the nvidia drivers. I do have a CPU micrcode thing for this CPU tho in /boot. It's in the list of things grub picks up. I assume since Grub finds it, it is part of the boot process. >>>> (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # dracut --kver=$(cat >>>> include/config/kernel.release) >>>> dracut[I]: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --kver=6.9.4-gentoo >>>> dracut[F]: Can't write to >>>> /efi/dba652170b7a716f303c3c5966799436/6.9.4-gentoo: Directory >>>> /efi/dba652170b7a716f303c3c5966799436/6.9.4-gentoo does not exist or is >>>> not accessible. >>>> (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # >>>> >>>> >>>> The directory inside /efi does not exist. >>> The long string is either a PARTUUID, or a fs UUID. >>> >>> Run blikid to find out what it is. >> /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="6488-1019" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" >> PARTLABEL="efi-part" PARTUUID="50add3c0-4ab3-4453-85e5-93af643a586e" >> >> I don't see anything, UUID or anything else that starts with dba6 for >> any partition. I don't know why dracut is looking for that. > Hmm ... I wonder if it is implementing a systemd-boot UUID for each OS > kernel. > :-/ > I'm on openrc here. I checked the stage tarball, it's openrc. I used grep on /etc and no systemd USE flags enabled there either. Is confusing. >>> Do you have a directory called EFI in your /efi partition? >>> >>> Have you mounted your /mnt/gentoo/boot partition when you called dracut? >> Yep. There is. Should that be there? This is what is there. >> >> (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /efi/ >> total 12 >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 . >> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:06 .. >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:29 EFI >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 24 14:01 test >> (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143360 Jun 24 14:33 /efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi > That's all as it should be. > > >> I mounted /boot when I mounted the others. I already have a kernel and >> such in /boot. When I did a search, I found where someone posted they >> used force with dracut to get it to install a init thingy. I used it >> and it did build and put one in /boot. Thing is, I've never had to use >> force before and figure something is wrong somewhere. > The first option in the man page explains what you did: > > https://linux.die.net/man/8/dracut > > -f, --force > overwrite existing initramfs file. > > Did you have an initramfs already in there? I had the kernel and the config file on /boot. I did not have anything else there except grub and the CPU microcode file. I didn't save the init thingy when I was copying files over from previous install. I just saved the config and kernel. > >> This is /boot. >> >> >> (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /boot/ >> total 22512 >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:29 . >> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:06 .. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77312 Jun 24 11:40 amd-uc.img >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158391 Jun 24 12:02 config-6.9.4-6 >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:29 grub >> -rw------- 1 root root 7740012 Jun 24 14:06 initramfs-6.9.4-6.img >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15000576 Jun 24 12:02 kernel-6.9.4-6 >> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 24 04:03 lost+found > This looks good. > > >> That give you any clues? Or am I starting over again. ROFL >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > No don't start over! Have you read through this: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dracut > > > I don't use an initramfs, dracut, or systemd, wherever I can avoid them and I > do avoid them on my Gentoo. Someone more clued up in these and their > peculiarities should chime in here. Yep. I saw that too. Thing is, it confuses me. On the main install page, it shows /efi mounted on the / partition. In other words, the same place /boot, /usr and /var are mounted too. In the page you link to it seems to show the efi partition mounted inside /boot. Like this: /boot/efi. The main page I think says this is no longer recommended. Which am I to follow? If it being inside /boot is discouraged, someone needs to update the page. I'm continuing on with the install but still puzzled about the dracut error. Is this what /efi should look like? (chroot) livecd / # tree /efi/ /efi/ └── EFI └── gentoo └── grubx64.efi 3 directories, 1 file (chroot) livecd / # I never looked in the directory on the last install. Nothing reported a error so I just went with it. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
