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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:57:39PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote |
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> On Sat, 25 May 2013 12:25:03 +0200 |
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> Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> > I would actually expect the change to take effect immediately. |
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> Then how would you be able to shutdown / reboot your system in a clean |
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> way? The premise here is that when you boot with an init system you |
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> must shutdown with that same init system, you can't just start one init |
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> system and expect the other init system to cleanly shut down its |
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> services. Therefore implementing this would either be unclean or way to |
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> complex. |
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> From all the methods discussed doing it on boot sounds the most sane. |
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It has to be done *VERY* early at boot, or else we're back to the |
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problem you described above. It's almost like a brain surgeon operating |
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on himself. Here are a couple of "outside the box" ideas that haven't |
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been mentioned yet... |
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1) boot into single mode before doing the changeover. Both grub and |
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lilo support single mode boot as per... |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Booting_into_single_user_mode |
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2) have the setup/switchover mechanism built into the Gentoo minimal |
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install ISO. The advantage here is that if the system ends up no longer |
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bootable off the harddrive, you can still boot from the ISO, chroot into |
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the system on the harddrive, and send emails to the gentoo-user list |
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asking for help <G>. |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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