my initramfs does not seem right

[o5gmmob8]

I rebuilt my kernel and init, but the int seems to have only firmware in it and no hooks to help with decrypting the root device or importing the ZFS pool.

I referred to this for how to extract the contents as well as list what is in the archive.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs#Extracting_the_cpio_archive

I know I previously ran a similar command, but it escapes me. I checked my bash history and am not finding it there, but when I run emerge --config gentoo-kernel, the initramfs it generates just has firmware despite me specifying modules.

[zen_desu]

did you forget to make/add an init file to the image you made?

the initramfs needs kmods/firmware, and userspace tools to do whatever it is that initramfs needs to do.
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[o5gmmob8]

But, I ran emerge --config gentoo-kernel and it handled all that previously.