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Im following the handbook, and I’m up to configuring the kernel. (In a vm. Skipping the optional installing firmware/microcode for now)

Trying for an OpenRC system, but it looks like all the steps need systemd.

All the videos I watched seems to skip this step and just go to Kernel configuration and compilation, but I dont want to a) mix old videos and up-to-date handbook, and b) blindly copy commands. I understood mostly everything untill now. Just this kernel step where I got lost the first time I tried to install gentoo.

    • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 days ago

      Around 2.1

      Systemd boot, OpenRC, then systemd-utils

      I should probably bring up this will be my first non-systemd distro. (Maybe I should have looked at Artix first. But too late)

      • bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        13 days ago

        So if you want to use systemd-boot as the bootloader you have to (apparently) install the systemd-utils package. Or you can just use GRUB / efistub.

        Edit: looks like groche beat me to it 😁

        It’s probably been 4 years since I last had to rebuild my Gentoo, but I would be very surprised if there weren’t good OpenRC instructions. I built mine with systemd and Gentoo handbook instructions always felt like ‘Are you sure you don’t want to use OpenRC? Ok, here are the systemd steps I guess’