Re: [gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:45:12 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva}
>>> experiences. The way the kernel handles them is very different and
>>> the tools used to build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used
>>> their on init thingy builder, as did most distros, whereas we now
>>> have a standardised tool that works well in a greater range of
>>> situations.
>> I've already had one fail on Gentoo.  It was about the 2nd or 3rd time I
>> rebooted after starting to use it.  The tools may have changed but the
>> experience hasn't.  It's one reason why I make certain to keep older
>> kernels/init thingys around so that I can boot.
> That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to fail
> because of the kernel than the init thingy.
>

The kernel loaded, it was late in the process, about or at the time the
switch root is supposed to happen, that it failed.  I might add, I
rebuilt the init thingy, rebooted it just fine.  I didn't touch the
kernel.  It was the init thingy that failed.  If it was the kernel, it
would have failed the 2nd time as well until I rebuilt the kernel.  I
was checking to see which failed.  What went wrong, don't know.  I just
know it failed to boot properly.  Odd thing is, I had booted with that
one before.  It worked but then failed on the next boot up.  Still, I
keep a couple old kernels just for that.  If just one works, I can work
on the others.


>> I don't see me liking the init thingys in my lifetime.  I'm to old to
>> start trusting them given the large number of failures I've had.
> You should try building your own. It's explained in the kernel docs and
> is a simple process. Once you have done it yourself a few times, you'll
> feel far more comfortable with the whole idea; then you can go back to
> doing it the lazy way.
>
>


Already tried it.  I never got it to work.  I practically copy and
pasted the thing and it sort of did like the Gentoo one that failed.  It
got to a point and failed.  I googled and found the same type of errors
but the solutions just didn't work for me.  I got tired of spending time
on it and kept booting without the init thingy.  Then dracut came
along.  So far, it's only failed once.  < Dale says a prayer > 

Dale

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