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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? | ||
| Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:45:39 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20120328084354.6304c3b3@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Pandu Poluan |
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| 1 | On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:17:56 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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| 3 | > Check out the email from William Kenworth in this mailing list; he's |
| 4 | > having trouble with initramfs being a blackbox. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > As a (mostly) server guy, I much prefer using a whitebox. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | It's not a blackbox, unlike a kernel or any other binary, it is a simple |
| 9 | cpio archive that you can unpack and inspect. If you want total control, |
| 10 | build your own, it is not rocket science. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Neil Bothwick |
| 15 | |
| 16 | If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |