[gentoo-user] Anyone figure out how to boot kernel 6.9+?

[Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net>]

Because my system was booting reliably, the penguins decided it was time 
to jack around with the bootup code. Kernel 6.9 panics on boot because 
the way the root partition is configured changed utterly... When I 
installed my new machine, the bootup changed to some crazy initramfs bs 
crap that I don't understand at all, and then is supposed to go to my 
normal root partition on one of my M.2 sticks... It was working 
beautifully in 6.8 and earlier with:

         menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.9-x86_64' --class 
gentoo --c  ??????????????????            lass gnu-linux --class gnu 
--class os $menuentry_id_option 
'gnulinux-6.8.9-x86_64-advanced-d218b143-ba28-4614-b2c8-e93bb8614207' {
load_video ???
                 if [ "x$grub_platform" = xefi ]; then ?????????n
                         set gfxpayload=keep ?????
fi ?
                 insmod gzio ???
                 insmod part_gpt ????
                 insmod fat ???
                 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root BD38-02F6 
????????????6
                 echo    'Loading Linux 6.8.9-x86_64 
...'                            ? ????????
                 linux   /vmlinuz-6.8.9-x86_64 
root=UUID=d218b143-ba28-4614-b2c8- ?x?????????????? e93bb8614207 ro
                 echo    'Loading initial ramdisk 
...'                               ? ???????'
                 initrd  /amd-uc.img /initramfs-6.8.9-x86_64.img 
????????????
         }


I just mouse-copied from a cat to console so I have no idea where the 
???? marks came from...

Has anyone figured out how the new garbage is supposed to work? Has 
anyone actually gotten it running? From my point of view any change to 
the bootstrap code is strong evidence for fairly profound brain damage 
unless a very specific failure class has been identified and well 
documented.... I mean going from linux 6 to linux 7, ... ok.... maybe... 
but for a point release? OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

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