Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:09:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Read the kernel docs on initramfs, you'll then understand that this is >>> not true. >> Point is, they are the same to me. Both stand between grub and the >> kernel and add yet one more point of failure. I'm not going to nitpck >> on the difference between them since I view both in the same way. > They are not the same. Your stating that they are the same to you is > effectively saying "I know what I believe, don't bother me with the real > facts".
They are the same to me as yet one more point of failure that I DO NOT want. I have dealt with those in the past and I don't want either of them and I don't care of it is called "cute teddy bears" or whatever. My point still stands, it is one more thing between grub and the kernel and I don't want it. >>> 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. >> Provided that the old one works tho right? What if I update and it >> breaks more than one thing? Then what? > That's got nothing to do with the kernel, initramfs or separate /usr. > Once init is running, all that is history, it's done its job. If > something subsequently fails, it has nothing to do with mounting / > and /usr (which is all the initramfs does). > If I select what to boot in grub and it fails, there I sit. If I try another and it fails, there I sit. I have enough issues at times already. I don't want one more that already has a bad, VERY bad, history with me. I have enough fun with the kernel at times. >>> This isn't even as close as comparing apples and oranges. >> To ME, a init thingy is a init thingy. That's why I call them all init >> thingys. To ME, both are apples. One may be green and another red but >> both are still apples. > Please, don't ever offer to feed me :-) > > You would be surprised, I am one heck of a cook. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
