On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote:

> Have you seen this before?

No, because I've never used dracut.


> (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # dracut --kver=$(cat
> include/config/kernel.release)
> dracut[I]: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --kver=6.9.4-gentoo
> dracut[F]: Can't write to
> /efi/dba652170b7a716f303c3c5966799436/6.9.4-gentoo: Directory
> /efi/dba652170b7a716f303c3c5966799436/6.9.4-gentoo does not exist or is
> not accessible.
> (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux #
> 
> 
> The directory inside /efi does not exist.  

The long string is either a PARTUUID, or a fs UUID.

Run blikid to find out what it is.


> This is from the boot media,
> not the chroot environment. 
> 
> 
> livecd ~ # mount | grep efi
> /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /mnt/gentoo/efi type vfat
> (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mi
> xed,errors=remount-ro) livecd ~ #

That's find as is.


> I removed the efi parts for the live media that is booted.  The efi
> partition is mounted rw and is vfat.  Right?  

Right.


> I used touch to create a
> test file and it created the file in /efi from within the chroot
> environment just fine.  It seems dracut has a issue tho.  I went back
> through the docs and don't see anything I missed but I don't see what it
> is that creates what dracut is looking for either.  This is the correct
> file structure??
> 
> 
> (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /
> total 447012
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         7 Jun 23 12:06 bin -> usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root      4096 Jun 24 14:29 boot
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root root      4760 Jun 24 11:58 dev
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 Dec 31  1969 efi
> drwxr-xr-x  49 root root      4096 Jun 24 14:32 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 home
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         7 Jun 23 12:06 lib -> usr/lib
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         9 Jun 23 12:06 lib64 -> usr/lib64
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 media
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root root      4096 Jun 24 05:19 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x 461 root root         0 Jun 24 04:39 proc
> drwx------   2 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:06 root
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root        60 Jun 24 04:40 run
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         7 Jun 23 12:06 sbin -> usr/bin
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 457688576 Jun 23 12:44
> stage3-amd64-desktop-openrc-20240623T164908Z.tar.xz
> dr-xr-xr-x  13 root root         0 Jun 24 04:44 sys
> drwxrwxrwt   3 root root        60 Jun 24 14:32 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root root      4096 Jun 23 12:09 usr
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root root      4096 Jun 24 10:19 var

That's all fine as is.


> Thoughts?  I miss something??
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

Do you have a directory called EFI in your /efi partition?

Have you mounted your /mnt/gentoo/boot partition when you called dracut?