From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init]
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 19:45:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130527234515.GB18963@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A29F25.1020601@gentoo.org>
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:47:49AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote
> Yes, I tested it first and got the whole system unworkable, one
> single mode later I baked something to get at least the minimal
> functionality, supporting our xdm script properly required some more
> effort I hadn't time to pour that day.
People "who want to try something different" in distros, without
irrevocably switching over, normally have a separate partition. This is
beginning to look like the simplest, least error-prone approach, even
if it is heavy-ganded.
Out of sheer curiosity... is "bb-init" based on busybox? If so, a
separate partition would also prevent standard utilities from stomping
all over their busybox symlink equivalants. Add another entry to the
grub/lilo menu, and boot from that.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-27 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-25 9:54 [gentoo-dev] eselect init Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 10:25 ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-25 11:57 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 1:52 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-26 8:50 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 2:02 ` Peter Stuge
2013-05-26 8:56 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:08 ` Matthew Thode
2013-05-26 14:13 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 23:54 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:13 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 12:03 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 12:25 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-05-25 15:42 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 11:29 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 12:12 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 13:15 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 17:35 ` Sergei Trofimovich
2013-05-25 19:49 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-25 12:13 ` hasufell
2013-05-25 15:51 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-25 13:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 19:09 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-25 19:55 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-25 20:07 ` Alex Xu
2013-05-25 20:59 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-26 13:58 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:54 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 13:15 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 14:07 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:44 ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26 6:43 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 8:58 ` Robert David
2013-05-26 9:20 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 9:32 ` Robert David
2013-05-26 9:45 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:09 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:45 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 12:01 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 9:21 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:01 ` Robert David
2013-05-26 10:11 ` Rich Freeman
2013-05-26 10:18 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-05-26 11:28 ` hasufell
2013-05-26 12:10 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 9:55 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 10:39 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 10:57 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 11:40 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 12:08 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 12:24 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 14:58 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-27 10:36 ` [gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: " Duncan
2013-05-27 20:26 ` Alex Xu
2013-05-27 22:40 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-28 9:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-05-28 11:56 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 0:36 ` Duncan
2013-05-29 8:52 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 18:15 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-29 19:56 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-29 20:55 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30 0:06 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30 0:22 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30 1:36 ` Duncan
2013-05-30 6:35 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30 20:41 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-30 6:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30 13:54 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-31 6:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-30 6:30 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22 19:35 ` Markos Chandras
2013-05-30 2:52 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-30 6:19 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-30 6:36 ` Dale
2013-05-30 6:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-28 3:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-05-28 4:19 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-28 4:43 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-28 12:15 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-28 12:15 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-05-26 11:58 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 14:52 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-26 15:39 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-05-26 16:41 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:48 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 16:55 ` Michał Górny
2013-05-26 22:58 ` William Hubbs
2013-05-26 23:47 ` Luca Barbato
2013-05-27 23:45 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2013-05-28 15:07 ` [gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init] Luca Barbato
2013-06-01 9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init Steven J. Long
2013-06-01 11:43 ` Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 9:15 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-02 18:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 18:48 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-08 13:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-02 22:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2013-06-03 0:37 ` Walter Dnes
2013-06-03 0:57 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-03 7:03 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-03 9:42 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-03 6:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-03 6:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2013-06-04 18:55 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-04 19:09 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-08 13:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 10:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-20 17:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:48 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-25 4:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-06-20 20:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2013-06-21 2:39 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 4:16 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 10:23 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 15:16 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:23 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 16:42 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-22 11:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2013-06-22 11:57 ` hasufell
2013-06-21 19:34 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-22 1:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-22 1:48 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 15:29 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-21 16:13 ` Markos Chandras
2013-06-21 16:50 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 19:36 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 10:30 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-21 11:19 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-06-21 11:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-21 11:50 ` Luca Barbato
2013-06-21 14:36 ` William Hubbs
2013-06-21 15:48 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22 6:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-22 10:07 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-06-22 11:13 ` Michael Weber
2013-06-22 11:26 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-22 17:05 ` Luca Barbato
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