Stuck at "Loading initial ramdisk"

da_weed · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 14

Hello.
I have been using Gentoo for longer then I can remember as my daily workhorse. My system became a little cluttered so I decided it's time for a fresh install. I've been trying to make it work for past 3 days with no success. I have started fresh three times already thinking that i might have missed something but ending up with the same problem. I thought there must be something wrong with kernel configuration and in the act of desperation i installed gentoo-kernel-bin but it will always hang at "Loading initial ramdisk" no matter what. For kernel installation I use "installkernel" with "dracut" use flag that generate initramfs.
When this happens my computer fans spin up, num_lock and caps_lock wont switch on on keyboard, Alt+Ctrl+Del won't work and Power button will switch off immediately. All logs are clear.
https://pastebin.com/ZNLE8VyP - kernel .config but because I used gentoo-kernel-bin I don't think that there is problem
https://pastebin.com/u9mVAvcm - fstab
https://pastebin.com/WpSwxnQM - grub.cfg
https://pastebin.com/Khjp6HRP - lspci
https://pastebin.com/JrumPsFv - make.conf
I got feeling that it's some silly little thing that I'm missing.

EDIT
More info.
grub.cfg was pasted into pastebin before i generated new grub.cfg so its missing. I kind of made my computer running again. If I leave either initrd /amd-uc.img or initrd /initramfs-6.6.30-gentoo.img in grub cfg on both kernels (gentoo-kernel-bin nad one configured by myself) the same problem of not responding computer persist. If I remove initrd line from grub.cfg altogether and replace UUID with PARTUUID for root partition then gentoo-kernel-bin prints out with kernel panic as it can't access NVME partition due to missing modules but kernel configured by myself which has NVME compiled into kernel on the other hand won't print any output (problem with framebuffer) but at least it will boot and i can access it through SSH. That makes things so much easier now instead of chrooting all the time. Now my original problem persist of not being able to use initram. I also add emerge --info and portage summary.log
https://pastebin.com/G2ZmMmip - emerge --info
https://pastebin.com/znUTxr0V - portage summary.log
Only odd thing that I remember was app-alternatives/cpio-0 had file collision of /bin/cpio, but it was merged successfully.

pietinger · Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:48 pm Post subject:

I guess this was your initial problem - missing framebuffer device/framebuffer console:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Manual_Configuring_Kernel_Version_6.6#Part_3_-_Must_Haves

This tells me you want to boot your kernel in a VM:

da_weed · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 14

Hello. Thx for reply

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 2:25 pm Post subject:

[da_weed,

da_weed · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 14

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 5:32 pm Post subject:

da_weed,

da_weed · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 14

pietinger · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:03 pm Post subject:

May I ask why you need an initramfs if you do your own kernel configuration ? (just enable every necessary module statically, so kernel is able to reach its root partition)

Maybe you want examine your initramfs-file; you can do this with: