dracut failed, droped to shell how to finish booting?

[turtles]

Greetings Gentooers
I am setting up a new Gentoo system (on bare metal) and usually make a initrd by hand for encrypted root but its been quite a few years and hand rolling was always tedious compiling stuff with static-libs then recompiling without so figured I'd try out Dracut.
This install has a encrypted root inside an LVM logical volume. I know the volume and encrypted root are good because I can mount them from the live USB. And I do realize this is the reverse of the Gentoo way of putting lvm in the encrypted drive, but this is just a router appliance and I digress.
Things have not gone very smoothly with Dracut, at first I assumed dracut would copy over the needed kernel modules but it does not seem to do that.
Also it throws allot of systemd-cryptsetup not found errors even after I configured it

[Zucca]

Does the switch_root command give you any errors?
IIRC switch_root won't work unless it was exec'd from PID 1. And in case of busybox, I remember it didn't print any useful information if it failed in such way.
If you exit the rescue shell and you don't get kernel panic, it means it wasn't PID 1, and you cannot switch_root from there. Then you need to set the environment as such that dracut can continue booting (which is a limitation in my opinion).

BTW, if you want, you could try using my cinitramfs, which helps you create your own initramfs image (no static binaries needed necessarily).
It's very much WIP still. It works by reading a list of files, modules, etc from standard input and the outputs a cpio image. It handles most of the dependencies for C programs and modules at least. The extras directory contains example initramfs init script too. But you can write your own.
I'm using cinitramfs on all of my Gentoo setups which all use lvm/device mapper, but no ecryption. But it should work if you include all the commands required to unlock the filesystem.
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