On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:45:12 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > init thingies have changed a lot since your Mandr{ake,iva}
> > experiences. The way the kernel handles them is very different and
> > the tools used to build them have changed greatly. Mandrake used
> > their on init thingy builder, as did most distros, whereas we now
> > have a standardised tool that works well in a greater range of
> > situations.> I've already had one fail on Gentoo. It was about the 2nd or 3rd time I > rebooted after starting to use it. The tools may have changed but the > experience hasn't. It's one reason why I make certain to keep older > kernels/init thingys around so that I can boot. That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to fail because of the kernel than the init thingy. > I don't see me liking the init thingys in my lifetime. I'm to old to > start trusting them given the large number of failures I've had. You should try building your own. It's explained in the kernel docs and is a simple process. Once you have done it yourself a few times, you'll feel far more comfortable with the whole idea; then you can go back to doing it the lazy way. -- Neil Bothwick I just took an IQ test. The results were negative.
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