oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 1:26 PM

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Double checked the /fstab, all the configs are correct, except for the kernel i suppose

rancid storm Jan 15, 2025, 1:30 PM

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The only slightly related problem that i've ever encountered happened due to mkinitcpio failing midway to create the boot image.
Turned out that my "/boot" ran out of space and the vmlinuz image was corrupt due to it.

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oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 1:46 PM

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my /efi part has +1G, i don't think it could be the problem

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and theese above are the only messages i got after booting,

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 2:35 PM

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ugrd makes smaller images if you're out of space

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and will do more to confirm you have the kmods you need

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 4:22 PM

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this you?

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 4:23 PM

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rancid storm The only slightly related problem that i've ever encountered happened due to mki...

mkinitcpio?

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that is different from dracut

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also that picture says you don't have the bdev fs, i think you need nvme drivers

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if you run ugrd it should tell you

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rancid storm Jan 15, 2025, 4:30 PM

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subtle jackal mkinitcpio?

I solved my problem, long ago.
Just thought about sharing something similar.

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 5:11 PM

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subtle jackal this you?

Yeah,

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Maybe someone there will have a solution

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 5:12 PM

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i think using ugrd may help point you in the right direction

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because it checks fora lot of this stuff

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if not i will patch it 😛

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 5:12 PM

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Will check on that

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Sure

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maybe i'll just settle on no initramfs at all haha

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i have all my stuff compiled into kernel anyways for security measures

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not using lvm, neither disk encryption

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why not

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 5:28 PM

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subtle jackal also that picture says you don't have the bdev fs, i think you need nvme drivers

`CONFIG_NVME_COMMON=y
CONFIG_NVME_CORE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y
CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH=y

CONFIG_NVME_VERBOSE_ERRORS is not set

CONFIG_NVME_HWMON=y
CONFIG_NVME_FABRICS=y
CONFIG_NVME_FC=y
CONFIG_NVME_TCP=y
CONFIG_NVME_AUTH=y`

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 5:36 PM

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i think that looks fine

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were you able to run ugrd without errors?

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 5:44 PM

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didn't tried it yet, but read somewhere it might be the IOMMU kernel config, i set it to strict which might be the issue

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I'll test with the lazy option

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 5:44 PM

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oblique stirrup didn't tried it yet, but read somewhere it might be the IOMMU kernel config, i s...

based on the error, idk

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tbh i would first confirm dist-kernel works

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that helps isolate any issues that are not kernel related

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except if dist-kernel doesn't work for you (unlikely)

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this specifically looks like a dracut issue, one i've never seen

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which could actually be related to userspace issues

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 6:06 PM

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subtle jackal tbh i would first confirm dist-kernel works

it does

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so it must be the kernel config somewhere

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 6:08 PM

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hmmm that is strange, idk why there are errors in dracut's init

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ugrd should make any issues more clear tho

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 6:46 PM

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well, installing it now then

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:03 PM

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tried to generate with your(Thanks for contribution) ugrd, and it tells me there is no xfs module, well it is build in the kernel not as module, error:

`ValueError: Required module cannot be imported and is not builtin: xfs

Failed to generate initramfs`

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the config for xfs:
`CONFIG_XFS_FS=y

CONFIG_XFS_SUPPORT_V4 is not set

CONFIG_XFS_SUPPORT_ASCII_CI is not set

CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is not set

CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL is not set

CONFIG_XFS_RT is not set

CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_SCRUB is not set

CONFIG_XFS_WARN is not set

CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is not set

CONFIG_GFS2_FS is not set`

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maybe it's just better for me don't use initramfs at all?

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:17 PM

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oblique stirrup tried to generate with your(Thanks for contribution) ugrd, and it tells me there...

it doesn't see it's builtin

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are you sure it is?

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how are you running ugrd?

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:18 PM

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via installkernel

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:18 PM

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you sure you didn't rebuild and forget to reinstall?

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run make modules_install again (even if you added something builtin)

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:18 PM

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i have no modules, all is compiled

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:18 PM

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you still need to run make modules_install

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it adds kmod info

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:19 PM

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i did, still the same issue

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:19 PM

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otherwise things have no way of knowing what is builtin to the kernel

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what does modinfo -k <kver> xfs say

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:20 PM

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right now i'm reinstalling and i'll try to do the setup without initramfs at all, will tell how it went

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:22 PM

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it should be fine without an initramfs

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if you're on top of maintaining your kernel config

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but if it doesn't work with an initramfs it probably won't work without one

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unless it's a bug with the intiramfs

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also ugrd has a no_kmod option you can use

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if you want to force it to work without kmods

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but that disables a lot of the validaiton which would help you here (possibly)

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 7:28 PM

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well, not sure why it booted clean as ever with no initramfs, got an another error from open-rc caused by my screw-up so i'm doing a clean install

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 7:30 PM

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oblique stirrup well, not sure why it booted clean as ever with no initramfs, got an another err...

what screw up?

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and ugrd probably would have worked if you set no_kmod, if it didn't that could help identify if userspace stuff is built wrong

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which was my first guess based on how dracut was breaking

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:02 PM

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subtle jackal what screw up?

ah, it wasn't my screw up just another problem, managed to get it past that without initramfs, but getting an open-rc failed to init message:
OpenRC **starting up** mkdir '/run/openrc/' read only file system mkdir /run/ioenrc/starting: No such file or directory and so on

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:04 PM

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are you using openrc-init?

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:04 PM

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isn't it built in?

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:04 PM

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the run mount is generally made an initrmfs

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no

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sysvinit is default

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:04 PM

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oh sure

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read somewhere it's in defaults

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will try to run it with openrc-init thanks

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:05 PM

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i would not do openrc-init

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it's a bit more experimental

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:05 PM

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subtle jackal i would not do openrc-init

so what should i do then

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i use sysvinit

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:06 PM

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did you edit your fstab?

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:06 PM

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on the installation, i did

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i'll post it

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/dev/nvme0n1p1 /efi vfat umask=0077 0 2 /dev/nvme0n1p2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/nvme0n1p3 / xfs defaults,noatime 0 1

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:09 PM

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that looks fine

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:09 PM

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the thing is that it ran without a problem with a dist kernel, so maybe i should change something because i run no initramfs?

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:10 PM

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if you run it with ugrd i can prob help you debug this more

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it tends to give helpful info when things break

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it should work if you tell it to ignore kmods

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:10 PM

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sure

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:10 PM

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and you can add the "recovery" arg to your kernel command line so it should give you a shell

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the init is also very simple so if it complains about something missing it shoud be clear what is

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you have the tmpfs kmod right?

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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yeah i do

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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so that is needed for your run mount

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ugrd should let you know if it can't do that

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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sure

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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if it does, and works, that is honestly really strange

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but yeah openrc needs that dir to be working to be functional, and it's often mounted pre-init, but should not be a requirement

oblique stirrup Jan 15, 2025, 9:13 PM

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subtle jackal

so INODE and QUOTA is needed?

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i have all the options turned on except theese two

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 9:18 PM

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oblique stirrup so INODE and QUOTA is needed?

im not sure tbh

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doesn't hurt to try

subtle jackal Jan 15, 2025, 11:58 PM

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oblique stirrup i have all the options turned on except theese two

you figure anything out?

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 6:10 AM

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went to sleep, back to it now haha

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 8:04 AM

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I'll try to compile it with localmod config, if it boots 'll then compare the differences in my config and find the issue

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 8:42 AM

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I have no idea anymore... Compiled allyes config, and also localmod config, neither of those work, i always get
ERROR | Required module cannot be imported and is not builtin: xfs from ugrd

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tried no_kmod and it generated initramfs, but still the same error on boot,

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okay... a new thing, tried to boot the localmod config despite the error from urgd, and it somehow booted correctly, the problem must be laying in my kconfig

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the thing is i have to go through all my configs and try to find the option i must've missed

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 1:00 PM

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well, all this debugging and it all came down to making a new kernel config, thanks for help

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should work if I manage to configure the drivers

subtle jackal Jan 16, 2025, 4:09 PM

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oblique stirrup okay... a new thing, tried to boot the localmod config despite the error from ur...

what?

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so it somehow works with kmods?

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 6:14 PM

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sorry for a mess, yeah ugrd** works now, i had to spend a day tweaking the kernel config and it boots up 😄

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switched to efi stub too, anyway thanks for help and for your contribution to ugrd,

subtle jackal Jan 16, 2025, 6:37 PM

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so everything works now? i wonder if the dracut issue still exists

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do you know for certain what you did to fix it? ugrd shouldn't fix things as much as it exposes issues (unless this is a dracut bug)

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 6:40 PM

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basically threw my previous kernel config, and made a new one trying new options, can't tell exactly, propably some drivers for nvme or pci were missing

oblique stirrup Jan 16, 2025, 6:40 PM

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subtle jackal so everything works now? i wonder if the dracut issue still exists

looks like it

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for now everything works

subtle jackal Jan 16, 2025, 6:55 PM

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possibly, the nice thing about having some kmods is that ugrd can read them adn tell you if somerthing important is missing

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also if you have stuff that requires firmare, it's often nice to just leave it as a kmod so you don't need to build the firmare into the kernel

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the linux kernel is essentially designed to use kmods no matter what, while it's technically possible to entirely avoid them you sometimes hit strange issues

#going bald - dracut stuck on boot, not recognizing my disk (Custom Kernel)