zfsbootmenu issues booting stucks?

[Waterdevil]

Hello world,

I have root on zfs!

when I found zfsbootmenu I tried it immediately.
Grub has unsolvable (for me?) issues. Can not boot any more with each and any kernel on both of my two machines.

so zfsbootmenu:
I booted, =>
Tearing down USB 0...14...
no message, no action.

I made a new kernel with chroot, booted, =>
Tearing down USB 0...14...
no message, no action.
I struggled a week only to realize, that when I waited more than 2 minutes it booted successfully.

QUESTION:

How can I see messages from booting like
Loading initramfs, vmlinux and their messages
or at least set a progress indicator (like penguins)?

Many thanks in advance,
Best regards
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[pingtoo]

Waterdevil,

Using zfsbootmenu you essentially booted twice, first time is the the in memory system (initrd), which in turn locate kernel and zfs-root and use kexec with newly mounted zfs-root to reboot.

So which part you not seeing messages?

If you are talking your firmware loading zfsbootmenu image and not seeing anything about the zfsbootmenu's execution than you need to review how you got the zfsbootmenu image. It is very possible your kernel binary in zfsbootmenu need to re-configure to support correct linux console setting for your firmware. You could search gentoo forums for those talk about black screen after boot.

[Waterdevil]

Hi pingtoo,

I use /efi/EFI/boot/zbmBOOTX64.EFI, which I downloaded from https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v2.3.x/

The initramfs I generated with dracut.

I chrooted in LiveCD and did:

[pingtoo]