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Hi, Gentooers, |
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New thread, next obstacle in booting new Asus mobo. |
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As the subject says, the boot hangs indefinitely. Output to the screen is |
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Booting a command list |
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Loading Linux 5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64 ... |
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Loading initial ramdisk ... |
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And there it stops forever. |
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The kernel is the latest stable gentoo-sources. I normally do a custom |
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configuration, but in this instance built it with “genkernel all”, using |
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whatever config genkernel produces. I use grub (grub2), and installed the |
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kernel and initrd with “grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg”, as I |
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normally do. |
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Googling around shows that this problem tends to occur when grub can’t find |
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the initrd. |
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So I looked at the grub boot script by pressing “e” just before the boot |
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starts to make sure that grub is looking in the right place for the kernel |
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and for the initrd. I think it is, since deliberately misspelling either |
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file name with the grub editor causes error messages saying grub can’t find |
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what I told it to look for. And those error messages do not occur with the |
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boot script that grub generated. |
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Normally, loading the initrd takes only a few seconds. |
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How does one debug this situation? |
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John |
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