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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 22:00:20
Message-Id: 537A7ECB.5090804@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On 19/05/2014 23:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2 > Am 19.05.2014 22:51, schrieb Dale:
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4 >> I might add, I used dracut for a while. A while back when I went to
5 >> boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy
6 >> failed. I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the
7 >> init part and booted up the old way. Once booted, I kicked out the init
8 >> thingy and haven't built one since. I posted this a good while back,
9 >> init thingy fails, it's gone. You are right, it is one more thing that
10 >> can go wrong. It certainly hasn't fixed anything yet but it sure did
11 >> break and keep me from booting with it. ;-)
12 >
13 > you english speaking guy call that YMMV ... right?
14 >
15 > ;-)
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18 Dale's middle name is Murphy
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21 The universe speaks to him in strange and wonderful ways by making his
22 computer do $OTHER_STUFF in strange and wonderful ways
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24 Dale is the best UAT tester in.the.whole.world - s'truth :-)
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30 > on the other hand this evening I was able to boot up a live cd on a
31 > brand new Fuji TX150, transfer some rootfs-backup to it and configure
32 > grub2/systemd/dracut/btrfs/kitchensink from the chroot so that grub2 and
33 > dracut booted up correctly on the first try.
34 >
35 > ... yeah ...
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37 > I am quite experienced already (I think so, sorry for sounding arrogant)
38 > but I am not used to getting it right on the first time (usually you
39 > forget some fs/module/uuid-detail ... and chroot a 2nd time).
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41 > This might not have been dracut's own merit but it worked anyway.
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43 > Stefan
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51 Alan McKinnon
52 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com