Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> Have you seen this before?
> No, because I've never used dracut.

I just had a thought.  I have /usr on the root partition now.  Do I even
need a init thingy? 


>
>
>> (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.

/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="6488-1019" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat"
PARTLABEL="efi-part" PARTUUID="50add3c0-4ab3-4453-85e5-93af643a586e"

I don't see anything, UUID or anything else that starts with dba6 for
any partition.  I don't know why dracut is looking for that. 


>  <<< SNIP >>>
>> 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?


Yep.  There is.  Should that be there?  This is what is there. 

(chroot) livecd / # ls -al /efi/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:29 EFI
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    0 Jun 24 14:01 test
(chroot) livecd / # ls -al /efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143360 Jun 24 14:33 /efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi
(chroot) livecd / # 

I mounted /boot when I mounted the others.  I already have a kernel and
such in /boot.  When I did a search, I found where someone posted they
used force with dracut to get it to install a init thingy.  I used it
and it did build and put one in /boot.  Thing is, I've never had to use
force before and figure something is wrong somewhere.  This is /boot. 


(chroot) livecd / # ls -al /boot/
total 22512
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 Jun 24 14:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root     4096 Jun 23 12:06 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    77312 Jun 24 11:40 amd-uc.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   158391 Jun 24 12:02 config-6.9.4-6
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     4096 Jun 24 14:29 grub
-rw-------  1 root root  7740012 Jun 24 14:06 initramfs-6.9.4-6.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 15000576 Jun 24 12:02 kernel-6.9.4-6
drwx------  2 root root    16384 Jun 24 04:03 lost+found
(chroot) livecd / #


That give you any clues?  Or am I starting over again.  ROFL 

Dale

:-)  :-)