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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:16:31 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> You missed my whole point. You can't claim it is because it is new and |
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> outside my comfort zone because even tho grub2 was new to me, it was not |
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> outside my comfort zone. Grub2 is very little like the old grub. It is |
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> just plain outright new actually. The thing is, grub has a track record |
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> of WORKING for ME. |
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Well, the post of mine you quoted wasn't in response to your comments. |
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But the point remains, not for you but for the quoted post I was actually |
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replying to. An initramfs is n more magic than GRUB, or LVM,, or many |
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other software components. You don't understand it until you take the |
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time to learn about it. That was true of you with GRUB2 and is true of |
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the post I replied to about an initramfs. |
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> The init thingy has a record of FAILING for me. The |
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> init thing has not changed just the tools that make them have changed. |
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That's not actually true. Ten years ago you'd have been using a 2.4 |
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kernel with an initrd. That is quite different to how the 2.6/3 kernels |
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use an initramfs. |
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> The point is, I don't care what tool is used to make the init thingy, I |
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> don't want to use one. If it fails, I don't know how to fix it any |
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> better today than I did back then. |
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I am not suggesting that you should use an initramfs. I was merely |
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pointing out that having no current understanding or experience of |
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something is no reason not to gain both. Please note that this was posted |
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in response to a post discussing lack of experience of such things, which |
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does not apply to you, even though your experience is somewhat tangential. |
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> To put it simply, if a init thingy is forced on me, the first time |
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> this rig fails to boot and I can't figure out how to fix |
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> it, I'll be installing some distro that is at least faster to reinstall. |
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> This isn't the first time I have posted that either. I love my Gentoo |
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> but if it breaks and I can't fix it, it is of no use to me on my puter. |
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That's a fair comment. Objecting to something that is broken for you is |
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completely different to avoiding things just because they are new or |
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different. |
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But them I'm the sort of person that's about to install systemd on a test |
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VM just to see what all the fuss is about (I probably won't like it |
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because I'll miss those little green OKs when booting :). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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