On 9/6/24 18:19, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Earlier today I wiped debian off the system and tried booting into gentoo directly. Result, total silence. It was as if no disk had been booted at all. Should I have run grub-install before doing that or did the dracut process take care of that detail earlier for me?
Dracut only builds the initial ram disk image; it doesn't install Grub or any other boot loader.
The way I have mine set up (running Arch Linux), there is a unified kernel image built by dracut-ukify. The Unified Kernel Image is loaded directly by the UEFI firmware, so there is no boot loader at all. So far, it has worked reliably.
