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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 21:43:55
Message-Id: 537A7B0F.80200@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut by Dale
1 Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale:
2
3 > I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to
4 > boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy
5 > failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the
6 > init part and booted up the old way. Once booted, I kicked out the init
7 > thingy and haven't built one since. I posted this a good while back,
8 > init thingy fails, it's gone. You are right, it is one more thing that
9 > can go wrong. It certainly hasn't fixed anything yet but it sure did
10 > break and keep me from booting with it. ;-)
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12 you english speaking guy call that YMMV ... right?
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14 ;-)
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16 on the other hand this evening I was able to boot up a live cd on a
17 brand new Fuji TX150, transfer some rootfs-backup to it and configure
18 grub2/systemd/dracut/btrfs/kitchensink from the chroot so that grub2 and
19 dracut booted up correctly on the first try.
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21 ... yeah ...
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23 I am quite experienced already (I think so, sorry for sounding arrogant)
24 but I am not used to getting it right on the first time (usually you
25 forget some fs/module/uuid-detail ... and chroot a 2nd time).
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27 This might not have been dracut's own merit but it worked anyway.
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29 Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>