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.
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
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)
Within section 2.1 choose only one subsection to follow. Those are all alternative bootloader options.
The bootloader subsection chosen in 2.1 on this page should match what is done in Configuring the Bootloader. The default path on that page is GRUB, which does not require any systemd components.
If following the GRUB path, follow instructions in 2.1.1 and skip the rest of 2.1. This is not at all clear in the handbook.
I believe that sys-kernel/installkernel is a utility script internal to the Gentoo project that can be configured to work with various bootloader solutions, including (optionally) systemd, and that is what this section 2.1 is talking about.
This appears to be an out of order dependency in the handbook
Weather update: 3am. Finished my first install in a VM. Learnt so much. Like I can side boot it on a spare drive/partition on my main rig, without messing up my current install. (Another day though. Sleep important too)
