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 1SCeD2-0000pG-FM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:45:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCA11E0683; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC55E05B1 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so414352yhj.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:43:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g1Oqv4hIMxs7UXgT2CNiB+Kmogeyx7v8X0Y1SCNVlKY=; b=qX3kjJPc7QUE2mCfphSw5aLLIgqLxUPAHnAgYByzs24lhJtmW19/INEmQcfCs/NWPF V2JiQGEb+cN3+vNzBIarOzON+8KlgGI0DnrMs28xoYNVt23l1sxFcW1UBfH2kSezldjv b+fSWCykfb8MNQZq0JkPMBE7cTaRiVQS+lBV2iz/HRSML8EpbxgJSG97MMnXBRsQOppZ uiUXHm9ERWeavVjb5jmintw2P0bRswl2QbUSVvXkM0noI2aCv3umvCUF0gB1HatZz18x Aa6aLy/2Tk404uJNgVWxcto7XTpIMHyZ1C7YaKpxBE40jYyFn6opH/D7nHISFUb07BE3 SmGA== Received: by 10.236.191.100 with SMTP id f64mr27414066yhn.57.1332884621691; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d25sm2595166yhe.4.2012.03.27.14.43.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <01de01cd0c26$98088c40$c819a4c0$@kutulu.org> <4F71E12F.7060108@gmail.com> <000901cd0c40$0a137520$1e3a5f60$@kutulu.org> <4F720751.3020900@gmail.com> <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4b674e22-13ca-4777-94b1-84b20d8d919d X-Archives-Hash: c5c510af25b1e5687dc2b7975eeb4614 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote: > >> I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it doesn't >> work like it should for me, there's no point in me using it. If I >> wanted a OS that doesn't work well for me, I'd be buying M$'s crap. >> Hey, it does install fairly fast but it is pretty crappy. LOL >> > > What? Me worry? > > Chill Dale. The Gentoo devs will get it there. > > And what will you do if Ubuntu doesn't boot? Learn another distro? Nahh... ;-) > > - Mark > > That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just reinstall and not format /home. It doesn't take to long and I'll be back up and running. I already keep a fairly up to date sysrescue so having something for some other distro wouldn't be a huge issue. Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no idea how to fix it. None at all. I know the basics of what it does but no idea how to fix it when it breaks. That's where I am now with regard to my other post. I can't su to root when using the init thingy but can when I don't use the init thingy. I have no clue where to even start to fix it. Is it dracut itself? Is it some script? Is it some option I gave it that conflicts with something else? I have absolutely no idea why but I know it has something to do with me using the init thingy since it works fine without it. Me clueless since this is something I tried to avoid in the past and not sure why it is needed now either. More questions than answers for sure. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"