Arnt Karlsen wrote on 19/04/17 23:17:
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...wiped udev off my box and wound up with a box that boots oh soo fine
until it tries to load my new vdev initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 ...am I
the first one here to try this on a rt kernel?

..recovery ideas?  Do we have any vdev live-cd?

..last time I did this stunt, I chrooted in off a Knoppix? iso,
I have memdisk and a few iso links handy in /boot, and Debian's
Sid vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-amd64, vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-rt-amd64 and
vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 with systemd-udev initrd's, but they all
depend on a working install of udev AFAIK, and I'd prefer pushing
thru with vdev rather than going back to udev.

..has anyone here tried downgrading to Debian Wheezy era udev?


..looking for recovery live-cd idea starting points, I came across
32-bit https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz02debiandogwheezy.html
which could work both as a starting point for a live-cd and as a
starting point for an upgrade path for stuck Debian Wheezy people
via "Devuan-0.x Wheezy" to current Devuan-1.x Jessie.

..according to https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/ "DebianDog is very
small Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like Puppy Linux. Debian
structure and Debian behaviour are untouched and Debian documentation
is 100% valid for DebianDog. You have access to all debian repositories
using apt-get or synaptic.", creating "Devuan-0.x Wheezy Live-CD" etc
is trivial, toss their repos for ours, update, upgrade and remaster,
the 64-bit version likely needs to be built off deb-src lines.


..but first comes the classic chicken-and-egg 64 bit recovery
I need now. ;o)


I'm not sure it helps you, but I've made a vdev variant of most recent devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live.iso (time stamped 2017-Mar-27 20:57) that I got from the official mirror
http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/devuan/

I purged a couple of things from it, then added and installed "my" vdev_0.1.1_amd64.deb, and made a refractasnapshot of this, into
devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso, which is downloadable at
https://www.uk.realsam.co.uk/files/devuan/

It boots with vdev rather than udev, and udev remains installed, though with all its "competing" files tucked away. As you might know, this vdev packaging is different from aitor's packaging for gnuinos by not declaring a udev competition, but rather attempting to manage a dynamic choice of which one is in use. The software is otherwise the same, I believe.

Ralph.
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