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Hi, Neil. |
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:01:32 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > > Read my other mail and pay attention to the difference between |
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> > > transient and persistent. |
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> > In my proposed solution, the executables in /sbin would only exist until |
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> > /usr had been mounted and the runtime PATH set up. After the |
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> > unification of /usr, /sbin won't even exist (apart from in schemes like |
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> > mine). |
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> What happens to files that are installed to /bin, /sbin or /lib by |
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> default? |
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Aren't they getting shoved into /usr? I thought that was the whole point |
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of the excercise. |
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> Where do kernel modules go? |
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I hadn't actually thought of that - I've never built a kernel with |
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modules enabled. Where do kernel modules go? Won't they be going into |
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/usr somewhere? |
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Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I |
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don't know if it's true or not. |
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> > I look forward with foreboding to the time when such recovery will not |
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> > be possible. Only a legacy Gentoo system or a recovery CD will help |
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> > then. I think it highly probable that "can't boot" bugs will continue |
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> > to happen occasionally. I'd like to carry on having a bootable |
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> > skeleton system for when this happens. |
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> When an initramfs fails to boot, it drops you to a busybox shell, ... |
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You know, that cheers me up a lot. |
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> ...although I also have a SystemRescueCD ISO in /boot for such |
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> situations. |
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I suppose I could do with that, too. And I should learn how to use it. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses |
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I wear spectacular glasses. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |