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:
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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, so it
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
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 to
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org 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
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 to
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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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 format,
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.
Discussion
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
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
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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