aevagentoo seems nice. i'm thinking of switching to gentoo
i mained gentoo back in the day and was very proud that i slogged through the really hard installation process and learned a lot from it, but i'm relieved that the docs promise you can power through an installation in about an hour on a modern system if you are really hurried and i think that's great
also I'm enjoying reading through the handbook which is very detailed but also very clear, so that's probably a good sign
gentoo install update: crossed the point of no return about about two hours ago. now in a chroot. i skipped over the binary packages step because it's optional and my eyes are tired, so now a lot of gentoo things are happening.
alright, after about 4 or 5 hours of careful configurating and compiling I am now the proud owner of an unbootable #gentoo system 😎 it isn't accepting the password i encrypted the disk with
Markus Osterhoff@aeva … then maybe check the kernel modules.
@sci_photos explain
@aeva hard to remote-debug, do you get an error message?
The decryption needs certain kernel settings enabled / modules installed to work; especially
* CONFIG_DM_CRYPT
* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 / 512
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER
* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
maybe
* CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARGON2
If not builtin [*], but compiled as [M] module: it has to be in your initrd.
(I am assuming cryptsetup / LUKS here.)
@sci_photos i'll check tomorrow i'm pretty sleepy rn
Amorpheus@aeva @sci_photos I'd follow Markus kernel config hints first. Make them built-in. You're probably missing the cipher you encrypted it with from the live environment. Then, please post GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and your genkernel command parameters.