On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:09:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Read the kernel docs on initramfs, you'll then understand that this is > > not true. > > Point is, they are the same to me. Both stand between grub and the > kernel and add yet one more point of failure. I'm not going to nitpck > on the difference between them since I view both in the same way.
They are not the same. Your stating that they are the same to you is effectively saying "I know what I believe, don't bother me with the real facts". > > Except you can never break Gentoo with a kernel update because, unlike > > some other distros, installing a new kernel does not uninstall the > > previous one. No matter how badly wrng a kernel update goes, you can > > always hit reset then select the old one from the GRUB menu - > > reinstallation doesn't come into it. > > Provided that the old one works tho right? What if I update and it > breaks more than one thing? Then what? That's got nothing to do with the kernel, initramfs or separate /usr. Once init is running, all that is history, it's done its job. If something subsequently fails, it has nothing to do with mounting / and /usr (which is all the initramfs does). > > This isn't even as close as comparing apples and oranges. > To ME, a init thingy is a init thingy. That's why I call them all init > thingys. To ME, both are apples. One may be green and another red but > both are still apples. Please, don't ever offer to feed me :-) -- Neil Bothwick Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key.
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