Re: [gentoo-user] switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

[Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@st.com>]

David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> [..]
>> During the emerge I had to hard reset the system [3] which obviously did not
>> boot so I found a PCLinuxOS live cd from 2014 and managed to chroot into the
>> partially updated system. I resumed the emerge successfully, unmerged gnome
>> and dependencies (this almost took more than building Xfce...), rebuilt the
>> kernel with the init system set to OpenRC (make && make install),
> 
> Did you also install the modules? (make modules_install)
> Did you update the initrd?

No modules here, everything built in. Also no initrd.

> Why not use 'genkernel'? The default-config should work in your case,
> but you might look at the config anyway (/etc/genkernel.conf), e.g. at
> the BOOTLOADER variable. Then 'cd' to your kernel-sources-dir and run
> 'genkernel --kerneldir=. all'.

I've always compiled the kernel directly so I am not familiar with genkernel. But I'll 
look again into my kernel's config and make sure it is the right kernel that's being loaded.

raffaele