On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no > idea how to fix it. None at all.
I understand. My question is why are you even using the initrd? There's no requirement to use it today, at least on stable. There's not even a discussion I've seen that says we _ever_ have to use it if we don't use a separate /usr, so I'm not understanding where the problem is. This is just my 2 cents, but assuming you have a lot of disk space why not do a second Gentoo install, use initrd there to learn about it, and just STOP doing updates to your current environment. If you don't update it then it's not going to fail due to an update, right? I'm not picking on you or anything like that. It just seems to me that you're worrying about the worst instead of doing the easiest. Let's let the heavy lifters do some work, watch people get through it, and only then decide what to do. No reason to cause problems with our systems. I've masked a few packages and am being careful about updates. Good luck, Mark
