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Am 20.08.2013 08:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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> Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and |
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> having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly |
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> recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you. |
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I'd dig a short and working howto "systemd and dracut". |
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My approach in the last weeks/months was a mixed one (which is nearly |
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always bad): |
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I ran genkernel to compile kernel and modules ... additionally generated |
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initramfs with a quick-and-dirty-script hacked by myself (it uses |
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dracut) ... and then executed grub2-mkconfig to update my grub2-config. |
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This works so far ... until yesterday when my thinkpad didn't boot |
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correctly anymore with the gentoo-sources-based kernel/initramfs 3.10.9 |
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(interesting: my desktop worked out fine with the same sources ... the |
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config might be a bit different). |
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I found that the genkernel-based grub2-entry (with the initramfs |
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generated via genkernel) didn't create /dev/shm anymore .. leading to |
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various things failing. |
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Another grub2-entry pointing to the dracut-based initramfs works fine. Cool. |
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So I have to get rid of genkernel, right? At least for now. |
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Additionally I would really like to understand how to influence the |
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default entry for grub2 ... letting grub2-mkconfig detect the available |
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options is one thing ... but do I really have to count down the |
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available kernels and edit the number? |
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I would prefer to be able to explicitly select my default kernel by |
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editing some file and for example choose "3.10.9" somewhere ... |
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Stefan |
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