Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:45:12 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva}
>>> experiences. The way the kernel handles them is very different and
>>> the tools used to build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used
>>> their on init thingy builder, as did most distros, whereas we now
>>> have a standardised tool that works well in a greater range of
>>> situations.
>> I've already had one fail on Gentoo. It was about the 2nd or 3rd time I
>> rebooted after starting to use it. The tools may have changed but the
>> experience hasn't. It's one reason why I make certain to keep older
>> kernels/init thingys around so that I can boot.
> That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to fail
> because of the kernel than the init thingy.
>
The kernel loaded, it was late in the process, about or at the time the
switch root is supposed to happen, that it failed. I might add, I
rebuilt the init thingy, rebooted it just fine. I didn't touch the
kernel. It was the init thingy that failed. If it was the kernel, it
would have failed the 2nd time as well until I rebuilt the kernel. I
was checking to see which failed. What went wrong, don't know. I just
know it failed to boot properly. Odd thing is, I had booted with that
one before. It worked but then failed on the next boot up. Still, I
keep a couple old kernels just for that. If just one works, I can work
on the others.
>> I don't see me liking the init thingys in my lifetime. I'm to old to
>> start trusting them given the large number of failures I've had.
> You should try building your own. It's explained in the kernel docs and
> is a simple process. Once you have done it yourself a few times, you'll
> feel far more comfortable with the whole idea; then you can go back to
> doing it the lazy way.
>
>
Already tried it. I never got it to work. I practically copy and
pasted the thing and it sort of did like the Gentoo one that failed. It
got to a point and failed. I googled and found the same type of errors
but the solutions just didn't work for me. I got tired of spending time
on it and kept booting without the init thingy. Then dracut came
along. So far, it's only failed once. < Dale says a prayer >
Dale
:-) :-)
