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.
Can you share which step you are up to which doesn’t have a non-systemd instruction?
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)
So if you want to use
systemd-bootas the bootloader you have to (apparently) install thesystemd-utilspackage. 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’
You can install gentoo-kernel-bin and everything works fine. About SystemD, you needn’t systemd as init, but you need systemd as udev or other things. Only follow the guide with a non-systemd profile
Gentoo lover and long time user here, OpenRC only.
Feel free to pm/DM me for any question in general.
I use Genkernel, works like a charm.
Spend my Saturdays on my machine. Rest of the week im reading the handbook on my lunchbreaks. Think I know what to do now, but will see how I go this weekend.
Installkernel doesn’t care about your init system, only about the bootloader. It happily works with grub so you don’t need to worry about it
