From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S87mf-00059L-4L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:19:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56070E090F; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32A2E09CA for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EDA58077A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:18:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:18:32 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts. Message-ID: <20120315101832.761d66d0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F61C02F.8020406@gmail.com> References: <292166434.606817.1331577566543.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> <4F5E853F.8060404@gmail.com> <017301cd00bd$24bce2f0$6e36a8d0$@kutulu.org> <20120313091356.5a947032@khamul.example.com> <07ed01cd01fd$ea6c6b60$bf454220$@kutulu.org> <005701cd022f$e8228fb0$b867af10$@kutulu.org> <20120315010310.GC32691@waltdnes.org> <4F615834.2050608@gmail.com> <20120315091356.62d6714c@digimed.co.uk> <4F61C02F.8020406@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs31 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/GtcH3t2yhLR.N/LYwC4QFr1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 17d88607-d5de-4d21-b229-b587deb25c55 X-Archives-Hash: 6a2d30e2777ded5326cfa92c807f28d1 --Sig_/GtcH3t2yhLR.N/LYwC4QFr1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:10:55 -0500, Dale wrote: > > That's why I build the initramfs into the kernel and not as a separate > > file. If I do something to break the initramfs I just boot the > > previous kernel knowing it will still work. > I tried that. It broke. It didn't boot not even once. Google was no > help either tho I found others with the same issues but no fix. Right > now I am using the dracut thingy. If it breaks, I have no idea how to > fix it. That's one reason why I left Mandrake, the init thingy kept > breaking every few months. Then after one upgrade, I was just fed up. > I moved on. If you're writing your own init, it's bound to fail at first. Just fill it full of echo statements and keep trying. It probably takes longer than dracut, but you end up with something that not only does what you want, but in a way you understand. --=20 Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable --Sig_/GtcH3t2yhLR.N/LYwC4QFr1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9hwf4ACgkQum4al0N1GQMfbACgx+la12wYdqmljJHnPV0Q4Iqo NKkAoNHzyPhS3cUU06ADwcElucSdAFiE =M3zD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/GtcH3t2yhLR.N/LYwC4QFr1--