[gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

[Dale]

mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com wrote:
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> Have you recompiled the kernel?  Could be a random, erroneous write to disk or something in the kernel compile didn't go well.  I'd suggest also rebuilding the initrd and reinstalling grub.  I.e. I think there is likely a kernel compile issue since it doesn't ever launch the kernel succesfully either on autopilot or when you run grub interactive.  Might also recompile grub, perhaps there's a change in compiler options that produces an incompatible (at least partially).  I also suggest the rebuild so you can be sure you have the right initrd and matching kernel.
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I had another thought.  Just in case it is a bug with grub that only
affects certain hardware, maybe try a different bootloader?  Maybe try
lilo or some other bootloader that works with your hardware.  I seem to
recall you having EFI so I'm sure there is plenty of those to choose from.

Dale

:-)  :-)