On 06/22/2013 12:07 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> After talking with WilliamH yesterday, I have this opinion:
> - Playing with /sbin/init (instead of /sbin/einit) has two interesting
> advantages:
> 1. For example, I now have init=/sbin/e4rat-preload in my grub.conf, if
> I do a typo, it would fallback
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Michael Weber wrote:
> === kexec ===
> speaking of panic. I've never actually used it, but newer kernels
> support kexec and in conjunction with pre-loaded panic-images[1] and
> corresponding (compiled-in) initramfs, it'd be possible to have an
> recovery shell. fo
On 06/22/2013 12:07 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> After talking with WilliamH yesterday, I have this opinion:
> - Playing with /sbin/init (instead of /sbin/einit) has two interesting
> advantages:
> 1. For example, I now have init=/sbin/e4rat-preload in my grub.conf, if
> I do a typo, it would fallback
After talking with WilliamH yesterday, I have this opinion:
- Playing with /sbin/init (instead of /sbin/einit) has two interesting
advantages:
1. For example, I now have init=/sbin/e4rat-preload in my grub.conf, if
I do a typo, it would fallback to /sbin/init. If /sbin/init is provided
by sysvinit,
Pacho Ramos posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:48:59 +0200 as excerpted:
> El vie, 21-06-2013 a las 09:36 -0500, William Hubbs escribió:
> [...]
>> No, he has his own versions of the systemd and sysvinit ebuilds which
>> move some of the installation to non-standard places as part of this
>> machinery,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:10:27PM +0100, Steven J. Long wrote:
> Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> > - only init is currently handled by eselect-init, which is now using a
> > very small wrapper POSIX shell script to redirect the calls to the
> > currently running init
>
> How does say, switching inittab
Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> - only init is currently handled by eselect-init, which is now using a
> very small wrapper POSIX shell script to redirect the calls to the
> currently running init
How does say, switching inittab format, work under this setup?
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Luca Barbato posted on Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:35:29 +0200 as excerpted:
> To not make this a waste of time here a summary of the whole thing:
>
> - eselect init will be opt-in for the time being, people can be left on
> their own tools if the want it - the default init will stay sysvinit.
> Discussi
On 06/01/2013 11:23 AM, Steven J. Long wrote:
> That's not an argument for using a symlink switcher or the
> equivalent across the board, by any means.
Your opinion.
> Firstly, we should be recommending people install Gentoo with enough
> flexibility to configure and use their system how they ch
> In the UEFI arena, why not simply recommend something like rEFIt
sorry should have been rEFInd: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ as discussed
recently on gentoo-user@.
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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:54:48AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> I'm back to the other part of it: switching the actual init implementation.
>
> # WHY (not just edit your bootloader)
>
> Since efi at least some people started to put in the kernel the bootargs
> and we have at least few new options
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