On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:08:58 -0600, Dale wrote: > > That's just sensible, although a new combination is more likely to > > fail because of the kernel than the init thingy. > > > > The kernel loaded, it was late in the process, about or at the time the > switch root is supposed to happen, that it failed. I might add, I > rebuilt the init thingy, rebooted it just fine. I didn't touch the > kernel. It was the init thingy that failed. If it was the kernel, it > would have failed the 2nd time as well until I rebuilt the kernel. I > was checking to see which failed. What went wrong, don't know. I just > know it failed to boot properly. Odd thing is, I had booted with that > one before. It worked but then failed on the next boot up. Still, I > keep a couple old kernels just for that. If just one works, I can work > on the others.
I'm not saying the init thingy didn't fail in your case, just that that is the less likely scenario... at least for anyone but you ;-) > > 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. > Already tried it. I never got it to work. I practically copy and > pasted the thing and it sort of did like the Gentoo one that failed. It > got to a point and failed. I googled and found the same type of errors > but the solutions just didn't work for me. I got tired of spending time > on it and kept booting without the init thingy. Then dracut came > along. So far, it's only failed once. < Dale says a prayer > Oh, dracut is certainly easier. But building your own gives a greater understanding of the process. I did it for a while, and it took a few tries to get it working (putting "set -x" at the top of init helps). I use dracut now. -- Neil Bothwick What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.
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