Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

[Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>>
>> search for CONSOLE in this file and find:
>>
>> #     exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1
>>
>> Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs
>> and it is ready to go.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Gregory.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Gregory.
>
> I really would like to find that partition number limitation on genkernel
> in the docs.

I've never had that problem but then I've always made /boot my first
partition.

> I have already had that splash screen problem, very interesting your
> solution. That's a big reason I love Gentoo, always learning something new.
> Funny thing is that checking the file you've mentioned in this new system,
> it has no hash at that line (line number 13, right?). On the other working
> system, the same, no hash.

No, the line is 149. 

You see, I've got this as part of my kernel command line:

console=tty1

The code section from the linuxrc file is part of the kernel command
line check as part of a bash(sh) "do" loop:

	CONSOLE=*|console=*)
		CONSOLE=${x#*=}
		CONSOLE=$(basename ${CONSOLE})
#		exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1

If you change your "console=" value on the command line then the new
console choice is redirected. If the hash is in place then the
console is not redirected and usually you get console output writing all
over your splash screen.


> I'm using genkernel-3.4.45.1 on both systems, perhaps not the same as you.
>
> Regarding that last issue, the message complaining that the root partition
> is not a valid block device _is still there_, only masked by the splash
> (which now is "verbose").
>
> I was optimistic in believing everything would work as expected once I
> found that detail.

I'm not sure I can help you here. My root filesystem is on an LVM volume
(as are all the rest of my filesystems except for my /boot partition.

-- 
Regards,
Gregory.