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On 2017-01-30 22:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:16:19 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > Now that I'm basically forced to have a init thingy, that is a |
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> > additional reason not to reboot. In the past, another distro, the init |
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> > thingy would break and I couldn't boot. I despise having to have a init |
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> > thingy. If I ever replace the hard drive that has my OS with a SSD or |
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> > something, the separate /usr is gone. Maybe I can ditch the init thingy |
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> > at that point. |
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> init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva} experiences. |
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> The way the kernel handles them is very different and the tools used to |
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> build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used their on init thingy |
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> builder, as did most distros, whereas we now have a standardised tool |
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> that works well in a greater range of situations. |
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When I first put gentoo on the laptop (last summer) I tried to follow |
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"The Handbook" verbatim, which meant I got an init thingy. |
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That never worked right - before when I had debian on it, and afterward |
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with gentoo. I got an oops about 1 in 10 boots, with the stacktrace |
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looking like it was in the middle of loading a module. |
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Finally earlier this month I got sick of it and compiled the essential |
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drivers in, and disabled the thingy building. (/usr wasn't a problem for |
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me, since I had it integrated with the root fs from the start.) Problem |
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solved, not an oops in 3 weeks or so. |
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