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Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 2013-09-28 3:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Hi, William. |
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>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:01:59AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>>> I have a pretty simple setup, but I have been using an initramfs |
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>>> which I |
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>>> built some time ago with genkernel and I barely know it is there. |
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>> Until, after some update, it reminds you of its presence by not booting |
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>> your machine. That's the sort of excitement I can do without. |
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> Precisely. And, it is my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong), that |
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> simply keeping your old kernel/initramfs around is NOT a guarantee (it |
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> might work - and it might NOT) of being able to fallback to a known |
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> working config until you figure it out. |
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> THAT, in a nutshell, is why my intention is to NEVER let one of those |
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> things on my systems. |
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That is a point I have made a few times. If the init thingy fails and I |
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can't get my system to boot, Gentoo isn't doing me a bit of good. I |
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can't boot to get help to fix it and I'm not walking up the tall hill to |
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my brothers to try and get help with his computer. With my health, that |
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would be only one trip, two at best. A OS is no different than anything |
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else around here that is broken, if it is broke and I can't fix it, I |
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replace it. I have done it with appliances and several other things |
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including cars. All of whcih costs a lot more money and such than any |
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OS out there that I know of. |
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I think I'll update that Kubuntu disk right quick while I am thinking |
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about it. Fall back plan just in case. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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