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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x [FIXED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:57:28
Message-Id: 5369013.DvuYhMxLoT@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x [FIXED] by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 18:29:50 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:07:40 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > > Nope. Didn't help. All I have now is dredging through the kernel
4 > > > config yet again, or possibly even trying an initrd. I hope I'm not
5 > > > being forced down that road after all these years.
6 > >
7 > > It was so simple, and the clue was in an earlier message.
8 > >
9 > > # cat /boot/loader/entries/30-gentoo-5.7.1.conf
10 > > title Gentoo Linux 5.7.1initrd=/intel-uc.img
11 > > linux /vmlinuz-5.7.1-gentoo
12 > > options root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 initrd=/intel-uc.img net.ifnames=0
13 > > raid=noautodetect
14
15 That's got corrupted somehow. My first post had it right, but the first line of
16 the file above is not.
17
18 > > All I had to do was to remove the slash from initrd=/intel-uc.img. I
19 > > did that in all the .../entries files and 5.4.38 also still boots
20 > > happily.
21 >
22 > Did you also remove the leading slash from the kernel? I'm still running
23 > 5.4 but I tried removing the slashes from the kernel and initrds and it
24 > booted fine. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be ready when 5.7+ goes
25 > longterm.
26
27 I didn't, no, but I'll try it.
28
29 --
30 Regards,
31 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x [FIXED] Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>