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* Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [120329 17:39]: |
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> I already tried making one from scratch and also making the one inside |
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> the kernel. Both belly flopped and left me with nothing but errors. It |
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> never even tried to leave the init thingy environment. I think I posted |
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> them a good long while back but no clue what they were know. I just |
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> moved on to what was supposed to be "easy". Yea, right. :/ |
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> My concern is this, if it is this hard for me to get one working, if it |
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> ever breaks, I'm screwed. I know myself pretty well, if it breaks and I |
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> can't figure it out, I'll be looking for a install CD/DVD and fix it on |
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> a grand scale. This is how I got to Gentoo. I couldn't get Mandrake to |
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> work right and be stable, I switched. |
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> Well, it's supper time here. Maybe that will help, me at least. lol |
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> Dale |
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Do you want to try again to make one from scratch? |
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If you're not using LVM or RAID for root or /usr and you compile your |
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filesystem into the kernel then it's very simple and should be about |
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a five line (tops) init script (and even if those don't hold for you, |
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it's not that much tougher.) |
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If you spend the time now to do it yourself I think you'll find you have |
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the tools and knowledge to track down any problems later. |
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If you're willing to try again, I'm willing to work with you. |
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If you can find your hand-rolled initramfs and the errors you were |
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having we can figure it out. |
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And for the record. I hate this whole /usr must be mounted in an |
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initramfs or on /. It seems that all these arguments about bluetooth |
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keyboards and such have it all exactly bass ackwards. If you have some |
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flavor of hardware that isn't supported in the base kernel then you |
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should be creating an initramfs for support. |
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But I can't argue with people who donate their time getting to work on |
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what they want to and supporting only what they want to. |
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And I'm not ready to make and maintain an overlay that doesn't require |
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this so it's time for me to stop gnashing my teeth and suck it up and get |
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on with life. |
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Todd |
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P.S. - If you don't want to get an hand-rolled initramfs working, it |
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would be interesting to see what an ls -lr /dev shows for the cases |
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where everything works for you and where it doesn't. |
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