Re: [gentoo-user] Question kernel upgrades for dracut users

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
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> I would say it's between 8 and 9 - both versions are slotted, so you
> can install both at the same time. If you have trouble, you can reboot
> from a install cd/usb-drive and reinstall legacy grub. I never had any
> trouble with grub2 and I am using it since about 2 years, I think (at
> least no non-"handmade"-trouble ;) ).
> So I think it's easy.
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> If you have a line for the init thingy in your grub.cfg it should use
> that or throw an error. If you use dracut according to a fedora-page
> you can add "rdshell rdinitdebug" to your kernel commandline and see
> dracut debugmessages and being dropped to a shell. maybe you could try
> that.
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> Since I don't use dracut I'm not sure if it would mount a seperate
> usr. A quick google search seems to indicate that you have to do
> something manually: according to the last answer dracut tries to mount
> usr if init is a path in /usr - so you could create a symlink and add
> "init=/usr/bin/init" to your kernel commandline [1] - or use systemd
> (it should reside in usr, shouldn't it?).
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> [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18057/dracut-and-separate-usr
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I was thinking it did mount /usr but wasn't sure.  Actually, I thought 
that was the point.  Thing is, I'm not sure either.  It seems when I 
built mine it read fstab.  Maybe it looks there to see if /usr is on a 
separate partition and if it is then it knows to mount /usr.  I dunno.  
I'll google some more tho.

I followed a couple howtos to get mine to work.  I'm not sure but I know 
one was on a Redhat or Fedora website.  I think the others came from a 
dracut site.

I just wanted to clear up some mud before I dived off into something.

I'll check you link too.

Thanks.

Dale

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