On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:15:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Mandrake used an initrd, not the same as an initramfs, which is > > directly supported by the kernel. > Whichever. Same shoes, different color is all. Read the kernel docs on initramfs, you'll then understand that this is not true. > > Good luck trying to find something else that doesn't use an init*. > Thing is, those others are a LOT faster to install. Heck, I got > Mandrake down to like 30 minutes from booting CD to booting off the hard > drive and logging in and that was a COMPLETE install too. I installed > Kubuntu for my brother and while not Gentoo, he doesn't have issues. > Kubuntu takes care of the init thingy, NOT ME. If it did break, > reinstall and go back to surfing. It fails on Gentoo, I'm stuck. I'm > installing something and it won't be spending a good day to two days > installing Gentoo. Except you can never break Gentoo with a kernel update because, unlike some other distros, installing a new kernel does not uninstall the previous one. No matter how badly wrng a kernel update goes, you can always hit reset then select the old one from the GRUB menu - reinstallation doesn't come into it. > It seems folks think I just don't like new stuff. I don't mind new > stuff. I use new stuff quite often. I just don't like using stuff that > breaks, switching to something else to get away from it, then turn right > around and have the same broken junk thrown back at me. Except it's not the same. How long ago did you switch? You've been around here for a while, I suspect your Mandrake experience with with a 2.4 kernel, which didn't have initramfs available, and initrd. The 2.6 kernel's initramfs was developed to address the problems with initrds. This isn't even as close as comparing apples and oranges. > I'm sure I can find something that > will boot in somewhat short order. Question is, what will it be? vmlinuz.old :) -- Neil Bothwick Power outage at a department store yesterday, Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
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