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

got myself a stick of linux ready to install after dinner >:3

my sister asked "how many linuxes do you need" to which I answered "one more"

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.

gentoo protip: compile stuff in a VT for maximum h4x0r ambience

oh my god there is so much linux in here

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

I can still unlock the disk and chroot into it via the live installer though, so I probably just fucked up something with grub. an adventure for tomorrow

@aeva I think I’ve fucked this particular thing up with installing Arch, honestly, and that’s why I haven’t done an encrypted gentoo install yet…

@aud how did you fuck your way out of this particular problem with arch

@aeva I just had an encrypted home partition, not an encrypted root partition, so it could be somewhat different depending on your system… if you’re using UEFI and have a different boot partition it should be similar though. The init boot image needs to have the stuff for dm crypt or whatever inside of it so that it can decrypt the partition during boot. I used mkinitcpio on arch, not dracut, but I suspect it’s similar. I don’t think I had to do anything with grub itself, but if you’re doing an MBR install and no separate boot partition, you might have to enable encryption support in grub itself. But that’s rare on modern-ish hardware.

@aeva ooooh, this might be relevant, too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/1n7fsig/dracut_with_full_disk_encryption_lvm_luks/

@aeva seems there could be device mapping issues but that something called ugrd might easily fix it