[gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

2013-05-27 Thread Duncan
Ian Stakenvicius posted on Sun, 26 May 2013 10:58:24 -0400 as excerpted: On 26/05/13 07:40 AM, Luca Barbato wrote: On 5/26/13 12:57 PM, Michał Górny wrote: You are telling me that a wrapper, a thing that gets executed *every* boot needs to do some random magic to know which init system was in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

2013-05-27 Thread Alex Xu
Funny. This is starting to sound familiar... almost like some other software that runs at boot, every boot. Hm, what was the name... Oh, a *bootloader*! Something that *loads* different *boot* configurations! But seriously. For people that can install a bootloader, is there really any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switchup-mode and boottime selector? Was: eselect init

2013-05-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:36:41AM +, Duncan wrote Here's an idea I've not seen proposed yet. Make the wrapper function something like a cross between a simple bootloader and traditional single-user-mode. Normal mode, like the bootloader for many users, would be a default choice