Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

[Dale]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> Took me days to get dracut to work.  Where does 15 minutes come from?  How
>> much time does it take when the initramfs fails?
> I've used dracut on a few VMs now and on my main Gentoo box.  My
> experience has been that it didn't take long to figure out, and it is
> trivially easy to install.
>
> Now, whether it works is a separate issue.  Most of the time it works
> just fine, and it is no harder to deploy than typing genkernel all.
>
> When it doesn't work then you're going to spend a whole lot more time
> trying to fix it - I'm still tweaking mine.  Granted, its failure mode
> is only disastrous in an unattended system in my case since I can just
> type one line at the dash shell and exit and it boots fine.  I just
> need to get unlazy and debug the script...
>
> Rich
>
>

I finally got dracut to work, I think it is anyway.  I asked on the user 
list but no one knows I guess since there are no replies.

I tried genkernel when I first installed Gentoo.  I found it MUCH easier 
to do my own kernel.  Genkernel never built a bootable kernel for my 
rig.  I don't recall the errors now but it didn't work and I tried many 
times.  I still do my kernels by hand.

The thing about me is that I left my previous distro because of the init 
thingy CONSTANTLY failing and rpm dependency issues.  Now, here I am 
again.  By the way, I didn't mess with the init thingy either.  It broke 
all on its own.  This makes me wonder if the dependency issues has 
gotten sorted out.  My brothers Kubuntu seems to work fine.  It just 
makes me wonder.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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