On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly > isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just reinstall > and not format /home.
That's why ${DEITY} gave us backups: no need to reinstall just roll back
to the last working version. Even if your backup is a couple of weeks
old, it with be more up to date than any distro CD.
> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no
> idea how to fix it. None at all. I know the basics of what it does but
> no idea how to fix it when it breaks. That's where I am now with regard
> to my other post. I can't su to root when using the init thingy but can
> when I don't use the init thingy. I have no clue where to even start to
> fix it.
Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init script and
a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs file is a plain
cpio archive, and post it here.
> Me clueless since this is something I tried to avoid in the past and not
> sure why it is needed now either.
Because upstream decided to work this way to avoid the problems caused by
the anachronistic separation of / and /usr. This is not so much a
decision by the udev devs as an acceptance that the current filesystem
organisation was becoming ever more unworkable in the general case.
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Neil Bothwick
"Self-explanatory": technospeak for "Incomprehensible & undocumented"
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