Here's a update on this mess. I resynced and did the updates. One of the packages was shadow. There was some others that I don't think is related. So, after that it worked. I had booted WITH NO init thingy. So, after making sure it was working and I was sane again, I rebooted WITH the init thingy. It failed every time. Think it was a fluke huh? I rebooted WITHOUT the init thingy, works like a champ with no issues at all. It does so every time.
As most know, I'm not a init thingy expert but could someone explain to me why it works when I boot without the init thingy but fails with it? I used dracut to build it. Also, I boot the exact same kernel each time. I don't mean the same version, I mean the EXACT SAME FILE. I just remove the init line from grub so that it doesn't load the init thingy. Why is this happening? Any ideas? Bug maybe? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"