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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:53:51
Message-Id: 20120328085123.49bebafe@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought by Dale
1 On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:47:06 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > > Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init script
4 > > and a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs file is a
5 > > plain cpio archive, and post it here.
6 >
7 > I did post it a week or so ago in another thread.
8
9 The init script? I didn't see it, which thread?
10
11 > Yea, I know all that. They are breaking one thing to fix something else
12 > so that they don't have to deal with fixing what they broke. I got that
13 > a long time ago. ;-)
14
15 I'm coming round to the point of view that the breakage predates udev by
16 many years. The whole idea of having four directories for binaries and
17 two for libraries is an inelegance that I have come to accept over the
18 years but only because it is "the way we have always done it"
19
20
21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
25 Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
26 A: Top-posting.
27 Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>