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I can't install Gentoo, specifically, the part where I have to install a BIOS or UEFI grub2 bootloader. No I did not use a musl and / or clang profile. With this being my first impression, unless Gentoo or a downstream fork comes with a installer, I won't consider it.

I'm going to install Solus OS / Solus Linux soon, had a good first impression with it's package manager, which claims to be reproducible but not like nix or guix are.

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I have a work laptop that's pretty cursed when it comes to booting anything that isn't Windows or Fedora. I only recently got Arch to boot, and then only by using UKI and skipping the bootloader by directly registering it in UEFI. Maybe Gentoo has instructions for doing the same thing? I think it's actually simpler this way, it's just far less obvious and very new.

Gentoo did have a GUI installer in the past, what year was it?

I only ever recall Sabayon Linux having a graphical installer and being Gentoo under the hood. Was there an installer for vanilla Gentoo?

What part is failing? Do you see the grub bootloader or is it failing before that?

If you do systemd (which is what I'm using), then you might look at systemd.boot for UEFI. That's currently what I'm using.

I ask, because one issue I ran into was messing up the kernel config. Pulling the livecd config in and using that as the base config worked for me.

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