Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > >> I might also add, genkernel is stable and has been for ages. It's been >> a while since I tried it but the last time I did, it failed miserably. >> It 'claimed' everything worked fine but when I booted, it failed. I got >> the old blinky keyboard lights treatment. :/ >> >> Just because something isn't marked stable doesn't mean it doesn't work. >> I would guess that half the stuff on my system as I type, is not >> stable. That would include all of KDE, portage and related tools plus >> no telling how many other deps that got pulled in. > > Oh, certainly. Sometimes, I have to unmask packages (or versions > thereof) because I know of upstream fixes I want or need. > > As a general rule, though, I avoid doing it unless I have specific, > strong and compelling need. >
This could be one of those times. The trouble I ran into became clear later on. I had tried to build a init thingy that was built into the kernel. It didn't work right so I left it behind. Thing is, I forgot to disable that in the kernel config. So, I was building a kernel with a broken init thingy and telling grub to use the init thingy built by dracut. Can you imagine the fist fight that was being had? I type all that to say this, unmask dracut, run dracut, add the init thingy to your grub line. I'm more sure that it will work than I am of genkernel. >> >> Time to eat. That init thingy sucked it out of me a while back. After >> a week of snacking on quick junk food, I'm hungry. I actually went >> outside yesterday. o_O > > Beautiful spring weather up here in Michigan, clear skies and > everything. I just hope it stays something like this for my wedding in > a couple weeks. > I hope you have good weather too. I just been having health issues, again. It's been a rough week or so. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
