Dear Gentoo folks :

It has taken a lot of effort but I managed to get my SiFive RISC-V
P550 board to boot and run entirely from an external attached SATA disk.
I am fairly sure that there is still stuff left behind on some flash
memory chip somewhere and that is the OpenSBI and U-Boot stuff.

I created a new GPT partition table on the boards NVME chip. It is something called /dev/mmcblk0 and the partition data looks like this :

p550# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.40.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 116.48 GiB, 125069950976 bytes, 244277248 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 175E3A93-158D-401E-BEC5-0041355DA342

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/mmcblk0p2 1050624 17827839 16777216 8G Linux swap
/dev/mmcblk0p3 17827840 244275199 226447360 108G Linux filesystem

Command (m for help):


There is also some UUID data that I am sure to need later :

p550# blkid | grep 'mmc'
/dev/mmcblk0p3: UUID="6383942e-8974-4671-88f6-5dd37c045417"
BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
PARTUUID="0f600fa5-8141-4ed4-879b-a939ace93d5b"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI" LABEL="EFI" UUID="0AC0-79CF" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="931fec17-08d4-4220-97f9-be7b5fb014c0" /dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="ee902d2d-2420-419e-bb06-b43be416e780" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="8a5d1595-2a78-471f-a2b8-f89d05c1c108"
p550#

I extracted the stage3 file into the p3 partition there.

I am trying to follow the instructions for the AMD64 stuff in the handbook. I do not think there are any docs for RISC-V. Really I just
needed to get the magic mounts done for /proc and /dev etc. Then I was
able to chroot into the stage3 and begin a few trivial steps.

I am not going with anything complicated at all and the "profile" is whatever the default thing is. No desktop stuff at all. I was able to
setup a trivial make.conf file with nothing special in it :

p550# cat /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l5"
COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Changing_the_CHOST_variable before changing. CHOST="riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist USE flag enabled

# This sets the language of build output to English.
# Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs.
LC_MESSAGES=C.utf8

GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/"
p550#

That works and so does the web-sync stuff and then I did the emerge of
whatever needs to be updated. Also I did emerge a trivial editor ed and
also vim. Here are the interesting buts from the emerge.log :

p550# grep 'completed emerge' /mnt/gentoo/var/log/emerge.log
1753148811: ::: completed emerge (1 of 3) net-analyzer/netselect-0.4-r2
to /
1753148889: ::: completed emerge (2 of 3)
dev-util/dialog-1.3.20250116-r1 to /
1753148918: ::: completed emerge (3 of 3)
app-portage/mirrorselect-2.5.0 to /
1753148982: ::: completed emerge (1 of 1)
app-portage/mirrorselect-2.5.0 to /
1753149691: ::: completed emerge (1 of 2) sys-apps/ed-1.21.1 to /
1753149787: ::: completed emerge (2 of 2) sys-process/time-1.9-r1 to / 1753149929: ::: completed emerge (1 of 5)
app-eselect/eselect-vi-20221122 to /
1753150056: ::: completed emerge (2 of 5)
dev-libs/libsodium-1.0.20_p20250606 to /
1753150345: ::: completed emerge (3 of 5) app-editors/vim-core-9.1.1500
to /
1753150619: ::: completed emerge (4 of 5) app-editors/vim-9.1.1500 to / 1753150643: ::: completed emerge (5 of 5) app-vim/gentoo-syntax-16 to / 1753151247: ::: completed emerge (1 of 10) app-shells/bash-5.3-r2 to / 1753151443: ::: completed emerge (2 of 10) dev-libs/libxml2-2.13.8-r2 to / 1753152456: ::: completed emerge (3 of 10) sys-devel/gettext-0.23.2 to / 1753152673: ::: completed emerge (4 of 10) dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.11.1 to / 1753152803: ::: completed emerge (5 of 10) sys-libs/pam-1.7.1 to /
1753152871: ::: completed emerge (6 of 10) app-crypt/libb2-0.98.1-r3 to / 1753152909: ::: completed emerge (7 of 10) net-misc/iputils-20250605-r1
to /
1753153184: ::: completed emerge (8 of 10) sys-apps/texinfo-7.2-r3 to / 1753153519: ::: completed emerge (9 of 10) app-text/po4a-0.74-r1 to / 1753153679: ::: completed emerge (10 of 10)
app-portage/portage-utils-0.97 to /
p550#

Now I am looking at the page in the handbook where it says we do then "Installing a distribution kernel" and I want to run :

# emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel

That fails with a baffling message :

chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: dracut

* IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 5.06 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild N ] app-text/asciidoc-10.2.1::gentoo USE="-test" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_11 -python3_12"
1251 KiB
[ebuild N ] app-eselect/eselect-rust-20210703::gentoo 5 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/lsb-release-3.3::gentoo 16 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/dtc-1.7.2-r2::gentoo USE="-python
-static-libs -test -yaml" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13 -python3_11 -python3_12" 166 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.193::gentoo USE="bzip2 lzma nls
utils -debuginfod (-stacktrace) -static-libs -test (-valgrind)
-verify-sig -zstd" 11695 KiB
[eb

On Tue, 22 Jul 2025, at 17:49, Dennis Clarke wrote:

--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: dracut

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo[initramfs]
# required by virtual/dist-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo

=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

* IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

I have no idea what is needed in that file :

chroot# cat /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
# package.use
dracut
chroot#

Also "Invalid atom" is a total mystery.

Is there a simple way to proceed here?

A few things here:

- A package atom is of the form: <package category>/<package name> with some optional version info

- The package.use files requires a package atom and USE flag modifiers, an example is above:

=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

- The IMPORTANT message is important, and the cause and solution to your troubles. The auto-stuff only creates the changes you create, but does not apply them to the live files without your help. Read the mentioned sections from the emerge man page (#
man emerge), to learn about them.

Regards,
Arve

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On 7/22/25 12:05, Arve Barsnes wrote:

sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

I just changed that one file and it still fails the same way :


chroot#
chroot# cat /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
# package.use
sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut
chroot#
chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: sys-kernel/installkernel-60

* IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 5.06 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild N ] app-text/asciidoc-10.2.1::gentoo USE="-test" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13 (-pypy3_11) -python3_11 -python3_12"
1251 KiB
[ebuild N ] app-eselect/eselect-rust-20210703::gentoo 5 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/lsb-release-3.3::gentoo 16 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/dtc-1.7.2-r2::gentoo USE="-python
-static-libs -test -yaml" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13 -python3_11 -python3_12" 166 KiB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.193::gentoo USE="bzip2 lzma nls
utils -debuginfod (-stacktrace) -static-libs -test (-valgrind)
-verify-sig

On Tue, 22 Jul 2025, at 18:28, Dennis Clarke wrote:

On 7/22/25 12:05, Arve Barsnes wrote:

sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

I just changed that one file and it still fails the same way :

Details matter, and that is *not* what I wrote (you missed the equals sign). Specifying a version also requires specifying a comparison (either an equals, greater than, smaller than, greater or equal than, etc.).

And most of all, the IMPORTANT part of your output, which is, you know, *important*, as others also pointed out.

Regards,
Arve

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On 7/22/25 11:49 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:

Now I am looking at the page in the handbook where it says we do then "Installing a distribution kernel" and I want to run :

# emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel

That fails with a baffling message :

chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: dracut

[...]

The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo[initramfs]
# required by virtual/dist-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo

=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] Yes

[...]

I have no idea what is needed in that file :

chroot# cat  /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
# package.use
dracut
chroot#

Also "Invalid atom" is a total mystery.

Is there a simple way to proceed here?

The package.use file contains a series of lines, each of which is an
"atom" followed by whitespace followed by USE flags to use.

Atoms are documented in emerge(1) as a reference to ebuild(5) which
tells us an atom is a package name in full "category/package" format,
and extended atoms with versions / slots / comparison operators are ">=category/package-version".

The message "> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:" told
you the file contents to add (two comment lines and a code line):


# required by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo[initramfs]
# required by virtual/dist-kernel-6.15.7::gentoo

=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

Where ">=sys-kernel/installkernel-60" is an atom (greater than or equal
to version 60 of the package name sys-kernel/installkernel).

You said yes, it should write that out. But then,

* IMPORTANT: 3 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.

Indicates you need to run dispatch-conf to apply the updates.


Your file actually contains "dracut" which is just the second half of a package.use directive -- it is missing the sys-kernel/installkernel atom.


--
Eli Schwartz

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On 7/22/25 12:10, Javier Martinez wrote:

El 22/7/25 a las 17:49, Dennis Clarke escribió:

SiFive RISC-V
P550

USE=dracut emerge blablabla

Or

Create a file called installkernel in /etc/portage/package.use/ that contains:

sys-kernel/installkernel dracut

woo hoo !

Thank you .. that seems to be the magic that works. See progress log
attached which goes back to yesterday where I was flailing around in
circles with no clue what to do.

Thank you !



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Dennis Clarke
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On 7/22/25 12:28 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:

On 7/22/25 12:05, Arve Barsnes wrote:

sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

I just changed that one file and it still fails the same way :

chroot#
chroot# cat  /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
# package.use
sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut
chroot#
chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: sys-kernel/ installkernel-60

autounmask is shy and nervous and doesn't like to make waves. It will
use versioned atoms out of an anxious desire to avoid stepping on toes.

Versioned atoms (has a "-60" at the end) need version comparators such
as ">=" or even just "=". But you could also say:

sys-kernel/installkernel dracut

and apply to all versions.


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On 7/22/25 12:33, Eli Schwartz wrote:

On 7/22/25 12:28 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:

On 7/22/25 12:05, Arve Barsnes wrote:

sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

I just changed that one file and it still fails the same way :


chroot#
chroot# cat  /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
# package.use
sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut
chroot#
chroot# /usr/bin/time -p /usr/bin/nice -n +19 emerge --ask --verbose
sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask: sys-kernel/
installkernel-60

autounmask is shy and nervous and doesn't like to make waves. It will
use versioned atoms out of an anxious desire to avoid stepping on toes.

Versioned atoms (has a "-60" at the end) need version comparators such
as ">=" or even just "=". But you could also say:

sys-kernel/installkernel dracut

and apply to all versions.

I am making some progress again and there are packages building thanks
to a trivial file needed :

chroot#
chroot# cat /etc/portage/package.use/installkernel
sys-kernel/installkernel dracut
chroot#

I don't know what the other file /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask
is doing at all. It seems to be ignored now. I have no idea.

Regardless, the Sifive board is chewing on packages again and I suspect
it will take a day to crank out a kernel. The really difficult steps
will be to get the board to boot anything that works. I suspect that
GRUB for RISC-V will be needed as well as some UEFI magic. I may cross
that bridge when I get there. Later in the week I am sure.

Thank you again.


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On 7/22/25 12:34, Arve Barsnes wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jul 2025, at 18:28, Dennis Clarke wrote:

On 7/22/25 12:05, Arve Barsnes wrote:

sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut

I just changed that one file and it still fails the same way :

Details matter, and that is *not* what I wrote (you missed the equals sign). Specifying a version also requires specifying a comparison (either an equals, greater than, smaller than, greater or equal than, etc.).

And most of all, the IMPORTANT part of your output, which is, you know, *important*, as others also pointed out.

Regards,
Arve

So the string there needs to be "=sys-kernel/installkernel-60 dracut" ?


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