On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:54:07 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20170419185407.228cd...@nb6.lan>:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 02:21:53 +1000, Ralph wrote in message > <d3a264ce-a767-dffc-845d-d1eb26027...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote on 19/04/17 23:17: > > [cut] > > > > > > ...wiped udev off my box and wound up with a box that boots oh soo > > > fine until it tries to load my new vdev > > > initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 ...am I the first one here to try this > > > on a rt kernel? > > > > > > ..recovery ideas? Do we have any vdev live-cd? > > > > > > ..last time I did this stunt, I chrooted in off a Knoppix? iso, > > > I have memdisk and a few iso links handy in /boot, and Debian's > > > Sid vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-amd64, vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-rt-amd64 and > > > vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 with systemd-udev initrd's, but they all > > > depend on a working install of udev AFAIK, and I'd prefer pushing > > > thru with vdev rather than going back to udev. > > > > > > ..has anyone here tried downgrading to Debian Wheezy era udev? > > > > > > > > > ..looking for recovery live-cd idea starting points, I came across > > > 32-bit > > > https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz02debiandogwheezy.html > > > which could work both as a starting point for a live-cd and as a > > > starting point for an upgrade path for stuck Debian Wheezy people > > > via "Devuan-0.x Wheezy" to current Devuan-1.x Jessie. > > > > > > ..according to https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/ "DebianDog is > > > very small Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like Puppy Linux. > > > Debian structure and Debian behaviour are untouched and Debian > > > documentation is 100% valid for DebianDog. You have access to all > > > debian repositories using apt-get or synaptic.", creating > > > "Devuan-0.x Wheezy Live-CD" etc is trivial, toss their repos for > > > ours, update, upgrade and remaster, the 64-bit version likely > > > needs to be built off deb-src lines. > > > > > > > > > ..but first comes the classic chicken-and-egg 64 bit recovery > > > I need now. ;o) > > > > > > > I'm not sure it helps you, but I've made a vdev variant of most > > recent devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live.iso (time stamped > > 2017-Mar-27 20:57) that I got from the official mirror > > http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/devuan/ > > > > I purged a couple of things from it, then added and installed "my" > > vdev_0.1.1_amd64.deb, and made a refractasnapshot of this, into > > devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso, which is downloadable > > at https://www.uk.realsam.co.uk/files/devuan/ > > > > It boots with vdev rather than udev, and udev remains installed, > > though with all its "competing" files tucked away. As you might > > know, this vdev packaging is different from aitor's packaging for > > gnuinos by not declaring a udev competition, but rather attempting > > to manage a dynamic choice of which one is in use. The software is > > otherwise the same, I believe. > > ..thanks, we shall find out. ;o) ..vdev initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 boot still fails, your vdev initramfs-3.16.0-4-amd64.img now makes it as far as finding coretemp sensors and stalls at some multipath searching, AFAIR, I forgot to record dmesg, I'm rusty, last time was 10 years ago. ..what nasty command line tricks do I use to get online with devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso? (Ideally wifi, but eth0 will work.) ..and how do I get wifi up on heads-0.2? Lan ssh didn't work on heads-0.1, eth0 would work ok on heads-0.2 if I had a long enough wire handy. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
