[2026-05-03T03:25:26Z] <Bienlein> Hi, I want to install KISS but after rebooting everything freezes at "Loading Linux...". I know that it is normally because FRAMEBUFFERS is not enabled but it is in my case, as well as nvme, ext4 and efi support. I also build in the firmware and intel ucode. Could someone check my .config if the kernel is the problem or something else I messed up.
[2026-05-03T03:25:26Z] <Bienlein> Sometimes the caps lock key blinks and sometimes it doesn't after I played around with some things.
[2026-05-03T03:25:27Z] <Bienlein> (My .config https://pastebin.com/HC9PMJ91) Thanks, I hope you don't get that Issue too often and its just a stupid mistake or I missed something
[2026-05-03T12:20:55Z] <dery> Bienlein the blinking lock key means kernel panic
[2026-05-03T12:21:05Z] <dery> not sure what you missing. Maybe firmware?
[2026-05-03T16:41:14Z] <Bienlein> dery: maybe? I went through dmesg etc. copied the firmware under /usr/lib/firmware. If the caps lock key isn't blinking does that mean that the boot process isn't even getting to load the kernel? Would that then be something related to grub?
[2026-05-03T17:10:08Z] <dery> Bienlein: if it's blinking, the kernel crashed
[2026-05-03T17:10:23Z] <dery> if not, the kernel is likely fine
[2026-05-03T17:10:43Z] <dery> have you build your kernel with or without modules? IIRC firmware needs to be embedded for it to work in module-less builds
[2026-05-03T17:11:12Z] <dery> actually to be more precise, I think *any* embedded driver needs embedded firmware
[2026-05-03T17:25:45Z] <Bienlein> dery: okay the caps lock key isn't blinking right now. I build everything into the kernel because I am not using initramfs. For what is IIRC firmware? Right now that is every firmware I have build in right now: "intel-ucode/06-8c-01 intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode i915/tgl_dmc_ver2_12.bin intel/ibt-19-0-4.sfi intel/ibt-19-0-4.ddc
[2026-05-03T17:25:46Z] <Bienlein> intel/sof/sof-tgl.ri intel/sof-tplg/sof-hda-generic-2ch.tplg"
[2026-05-03T17:26:25Z] <Bienlein> I am doing it the first time so I am a bit confused sorry
[2026-05-03T17:39:23Z] <dery> Bienlein: by IIRC I meant, "if i recall correctly" :P
[2026-05-03T17:41:19Z] <dery> Regarding kernel configuration, gentoo has a pretty complete guide AFAIK (as far as I know), if you're interested: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel
[2026-05-03T17:42:48Z] <dery> regarding your firmware, instead, you need to embed it into the kernel, by specifying each file manually. You can do so in device driver -> generic driver options -> firmware loader. There should be an option "Build named firmware blobs into the kernel binary" (CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE) which allows you to specify that.
[2026-05-03T17:44:15Z] <dery> Gentoo also covers that, although it doesn't say much else https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware
[2026-05-03T18:04:39Z] <Bienlein> dery: I used this blog https://firasuke.github.io/DOTSLASHLINUX for help with firmware. Didn't I embed the firmware in the kernel correctly? The string I send is the one set to CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and the DIR to /usr/lib/firmware which is the directory to the firmware files. Isn't that what the gentoo guide also says. I did it like explained
[2026-05-03T18:04:39Z] <Bienlein> here: https://kisscommunity.org/kernel/firmware/
[2026-05-03T23:36:11Z] <kris_> resistance is qtile