Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>
>> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no
>> idea how to fix it.  None at all.
>
> I understand. My question is why are you even using the initrd?
> There's no requirement to use it today, at least on stable. There's
> not even a discussion I've seen that says we _ever_ have to use it if
> we don't use a separate /usr, so I'm not understanding where the
> problem is.
>
> This is just my 2 cents, but assuming you have a lot of disk space why
> not do a second Gentoo install, use initrd there to learn about it,
> and just STOP doing updates to your current environment. If you don't
> update it then it's not going to fail due to an update, right?
>
> I'm not picking on you or anything like that. It just seems to me that
> you're worrying about the worst instead of doing the easiest. Let's
> let the heavy lifters do some work, watch people get through it, and
> only then decide what to do. No reason to cause problems with our
> systems. I've masked a few packages and am being careful about
> updates.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
>


Right now it won't be a problem but when I get my set up like I want it,
it will be.  I'm trying to learn it on a system that doesn't care right
now.  As posted elsewhere, if I boot with the init thingy then I can't
su to root.  My solution right now was to boot without the init thingy.
 However, if I get to where I can set up my system like I want, that
would be a problem for me.  This is holding me back from doing several
things on my system and one of them is using LVM for everything but /
and /boot.

Dale

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