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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:19:56
Message-Id: 3492301.ddNJvlMHGk@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system by Raffaele Belardi
1 On Monday, 19 August 2019 07:41:20 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote:
2 > Raffaele Belardi wrote:
3 > > One thing I notice from the boot log is that the root FS requires
4 > > recovery. My live CDs did not let me because they are too old so I'll
5 > > try to find a more up to date live CD.
6 > Looking better at the kernel log, for sda1 (the root partition) it says:
7 > "Recovery complete" so I don't think a new live CD will help. I'm really
8 > out of ideas.
9 >
10 > raffaele
11
12 You have 3 drives attached while you're trying to boot. The kernel seems to
13 come to a stop after /dev/sdc. It may need some driver for this device/fs.
14 I'd start by unplugging any drives which do not contain the system you're
15 trying to boot, then go through a step by step process of installing/setting
16 up openrc, DM and boot loader.
17
18 The DM is not necessary to boot your system, but while you chrooted into it
19 you might as well install and set up sddm as a DM - there are others but be
20 careful they do not try to bring in 2/3 of Gnome and its dependencies too.
21
22 Re-install GRUB or whichever boot manager you use and make sure it points to
23 the correct kernel. If you're on an UEFI system and you boot directly using
24 the kernel EFI stub, re-run efibootmgr to specify the kernel UEFI will boot
25 with, but first run fsck.vfat on the EFI partition just in case this fs was
26 messed up too.
27
28 Make sure you are using a kernel set up for openrc.
29
30 In /etc/rc.conf set up a log file and temporarily enable logging. If any
31 openrc scripts fail and can't boot, you will able to look at the logs when you
32 chroot back into it - using less/cat/plain text editor. ;-)
33
34 I hope the above should allow you to boot, or at least arrive at some
35 meaningful failure message to resolve.
36 --
37 Regards,
38
39 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>