Poison BL. <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote : > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > >> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an > >> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can > >> investigate? > > > > Grub.cfg looks all right to me: at least, it does include a sensible root= > > value. > > > > I never see a grub screen - it just starts the current kernel. I did > wonder > > about an initramfs and I'm trying it now. I've also followed Remy's advice > > and used gentoo-sources-4.4.6. > > > > So far I've spent about 30 hours scratching my head, clutching at straws > and > > going round in circles. I'm getting dizzy. :-) > > > > -- > > Rgds > > Peter > > So, you have Grub setup to give a menu, pause, or at least do > something visible, and it's skipping right past that? That makes me > suspect that Grub's not running at all, and that the kernel's being > loaded by UEFI directly.
Ah! Now why didn't I think of that? > What files are in /boot/ on your efi partition (preferably identified > with the file command)? # file /boot/* /boot/config-4.4.6-gentoo: Linux make config build file, ASCII text /boot/efi: directory /boot/grub: directory /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.6-gentoo: XZ compressed data /boot/System.map-4.4.6-gentoo: ASCII text /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.6-gentoo: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.4.6-gentoo (root@sysresccd) #7 SMP Fri Apr 8 15:51:24 BST 201, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA # file /boot/efi/boot/* /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.4.6-gentoo (root@sysresccd) #7 SMP Fri Apr 8 15:51:24 BST 201, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x5, Normal VGA > If you have a kernel in there named bootx64.efi, that's likely the culprit. That's what it's supposed to look like, isn't it? (I'm using web-mail after booting sysresccd.)
