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Poison BL. <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote : |
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: |
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> >> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an |
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> >> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can |
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> >> investigate? |
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> > |
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> > Grub.cfg looks all right to me: at least, it does include a sensible root= |
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> > value. |
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> > |
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> > I never see a grub screen - it just starts the current kernel. I did |
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> wonder |
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> > about an initramfs and I'm trying it now. I've also followed Remy's advice |
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> > and used gentoo-sources-4.4.6. |
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> > So far I've spent about 30 hours scratching my head, clutching at straws |
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> and |
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> > going round in circles. I'm getting dizzy. :-) |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Rgds |
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> > Peter |
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> |
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> So, you have Grub setup to give a menu, pause, or at least do |
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> something visible, and it's skipping right past that? That makes me |
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> suspect that Grub's not running at all, and that the kernel's being |
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> loaded by UEFI directly. |
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Ah! Now why didn't I think of that? |
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> What files are in /boot/ on your efi partition (preferably identified |
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> with the file command)? |
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# file /boot/* |
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/boot/config-4.4.6-gentoo: Linux make config build file, ASCII text |
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/boot/efi: directory |
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/boot/grub: directory |
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/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.6-gentoo: XZ compressed data |
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/boot/System.map-4.4.6-gentoo: ASCII text |
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/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.6-gentoo: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.4.6-gentoo (root@sysresccd) #7 SMP Fri Apr 8 15:51:24 BST 201, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA |
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# file /boot/efi/boot/* |
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/boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.4.6-gentoo (root@sysresccd) #7 SMP Fri Apr 8 15:51:24 BST 201, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA |
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> If you have a kernel in there named bootx64.efi, that's likely the culprit. |
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That's what it's supposed to look like, isn't it? |
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(I'm using web-mail after booting sysresccd.) |
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