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On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:51:07 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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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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Was that using dracut or genkernel? Dracut is, IMO, much better. It also |
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has the advantage of being distro-agnostic so is more widely used and |
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developed. |
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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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I'd do the same. There's no point in adding an extra layer when you can |
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do it all in the kernel. I'm using an encrypted drive so it is necessary, |
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and dracut just works[tm]. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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What do you call a Tellytubbie with a finger up its bum? Stinky Pinky! |
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