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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>>>> Michael Mol wrote: |
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>>> To the OP. I would use dracut. I ran into trouble but I found out |
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>>> later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut |
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>>> init thingy to mess up. I strongly suspect that if I had known to get |
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>>> rid of the previous attempt, it would have worked the first time. My |
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>>> previous attempt was the one that was built into the kernel itself. |
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>>> Lets just say there was a huge fight and I missed it. Grub was telling |
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>>> one thing to load and the kernel was trying to load something else. I'm |
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>>> sure it was a nice fight. |
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>> The principal reason I'm not using dracut: |
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>> * sys-kernel/dracut |
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>> Available versions: ~014-r2!t ~017-r1!t ~017-r2!t ~017-r3!t |
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>> ~018!t {debug device-mapper dracut_modules_biosdevname |
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>> dracut_modules_btrfs dracut_modules_caps dracut_modules_crypt |
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>> dracut_modules_crypt-gpg dracut_modules_dmraid |
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>> dracut_modules_dmsquash-live dracut_modules_gensplash |
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>> dracut_modules_iscsi dracut_modules_livenet dracut_modules_lvm |
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>> dracut_modules_mdraid dracut_modules_multipath dracut_modules_nbd |
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>> dracut_modules_nfs dracut_modules_plymouth dracut_modules_ssh-client |
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>> dracut_modules_syslog net selinux} |
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>> Homepage: http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org |
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>> Description: Generic initramfs generation tool |
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>> None of the versions have been marked stable. Genkernel, on the other hand, has. |
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> That makes almost no sense. You say that you are planning on using an |
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> initramfs because "udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable". That for |
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> sure will *not* happen *before* dracut hits stable. |
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> I would try dracut. Besides, as I said in another similar thread, an |
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> initramfs is one of the most secure things to prove: you add a new |
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> entry in grub-legacy/GRUB2, and try to boot. Doesn't work? Get back to |
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> your previous entry. |
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When dracut hits stable, sure, I'll give it a shot. |
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In the mean time, I get enough headaches from running a mostly-stable |
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package set. I was once berated for mixing stable and unstable, and |
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then having the gall to file a bug report when stable emacs wouldn't |
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build with libpng15 prior to libpng's landing stable, so I try to keep |
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my usage of unstable packages to a minimum. I don't want to run a full |
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~amd64 setup, because I don't want to deal with the headaches of being |
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a full beta tester. |
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Unless I have a strong and compelling reason to unmask a package and |
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risk having to unmask dependent versions for it, I won't. For the |
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moment, I don't. |
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> Dracut depends on udev-164; everything else on its depend list is |
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> stable, I believe. Try it, and if doesn't work easily, go back to |
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> genkernel. |
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It took me over a month before I found time to try genkernel. And that |
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only happened because I'm stuck at home trying to recover from a sinus |
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infection and fever. |
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