Gentoo install ... issues with keys and mounts

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Your process seems to be ok except use /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/efi, no boot/efi.

Other issue, you mentioned you couldn’t install the linux-firmware earlier. You need to either accept_license= * in make.conf or accept them for that package only (I think package_accept_keywords is the place, I accept all in make.conf).

If I may suggest: start with binaries. You’ll get the system running faster and if you wish you can then disable binaries and build the system again with emerge --emptytree @world. (I am on mobile phone, didn’t check if the emerge emptytree is correctly but you get the point). Get it to boot and then do what you want!

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Yes. When emerging Dinit it also removes conflicting packages.

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OK, thats different from antiX . They dont actually conflict as installs. Only one can be activated of course.

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I did that but missed putting it in my writeup.
I write that log line by line as I do the install. … that is one of the weaknesses of the install process … there is no log. … Maybe I could script it.?

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Sorry, I needed to double check. It didn’t remove OpenRC but Sysvinit.

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You might be be to still able to use OpenRC commands … it is possible to run OpenRC on its own without sysVinit.
Is /etc/init.d still there?

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I can’t check any more. I’m on my way to airport. A holiday so no laptop with me.. I’ll check it on Sunday/Monday

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Have a nice break.
My recreation consists of digging the bed for this Summer’s tomato crop.

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Did your VM boot?

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Only half done .
Had trouble downloading the stage3 file … they were doing an update and changed its name on me.

I made a extra partition. I might put another simple linux in there so I can do a boot failure recovery if needed.

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After looking at your build, why are you even using EFI in a VM?

"grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=gentoo" Maybe you should have used something like this for grub-install ?
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Good question . The default BIOS boot would do.
I suppose I usually use EFI because it is the modern way
When I do y nedt Gento hard install it will be EFI … so I may as well learn how.

VM’s are great because I can save and turn the machine off , but the lack of copy/paste slows me up. … I must have typed the 150 character wget statement 10 times.

Maybe I could setup host filesystem access in the VM and copy the stage file from the host.

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Yes, and with your amount of ram you could just use a one ext4 partition mounted at /mnt/gentoo !! I do believe you have the grub-install wrong, and to fix this you will have to remount everthing and chroot back in!!

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You mean
grub-install /dev/sda
Yeah it should be vda
and that is an install to MBR
I need
grub-install --efi-directory=/efi
and efi has to be mounted.

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I do believe so!! I have yet to see if you have ran these commands!!

mkdir /etc/portage/repos.conf
cp /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf ?

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Thanks, I will fix my file.
I may as well stay with the efi boot now.
My stage3 fiie is tiny … 256 M . … it only takes half an hour to compile it with -j8

I may need this too

echo ‘GRUB_PLATFORMS=“efi-64”’ >> /etc/portage/make.conf

to force portage to compile in EFI support.

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This time I have /dev/vda3 mounted to / in the chroot .
That looks more healthy

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It is compiling stage3 at the moment

I will need to also mount /efi before I do grub

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It might help!! You do not have to set "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=“amd64” portage will default to this!! I know @ihasama likes binary packages but I find very little gain in using binary packages, and you will get a cleaner build if you just compile from source!!

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I had GRUB_PLATFORMS=“efi-64 pc”
So I dont need ‘pc’ in there … thanks
It is taking longer this time … about 90 mins so far … that means it is working … it is up to using 13Gb of ram … I gave it 16Gb … fingers crossed.

What do you mean by a cleaner build?
Is mixing binary and compiled packages untidy?

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Not unless you boot mbr and use msdos!! What tar file did you download!!