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Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard

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On 02/03/2016 09:13 PM, Jerry Peters wrote:

> 
> Yes it's a PITA. I also don't understand why the slack kernels don't
> have the full USB stack built in, at least for keyboard and disk.
> Especially considering it has usb-common.ko, usbcore.ko, and 
> usbmon.ko builtin. It'd need uhci, ohci, xhci and the hid drivers.


Answering yourself and Michael I usually build my own kernels, starting
either from the slack config or my previous ones but build in the hid
stuff and commonly used file systems so I can avoid initrd.

Though I can see why people might want a modular solution my preference
would be to boot into a minimal system that at least leaves you with the
tools for fixing things.  I know you can get a shell on some ramdisks
but there does not seem to be much you can do when you are there.

What I have done on my laptop, as disk space is cheap, is to have two
slack installs.  The smaller partition contains a basic (fullish)
install which is rarely used, the 'maintenance' distro.  The 'main'
distro is usually used and is in the larger partition.  By a little init
script and lilo.conf hacking it boots part way into the maintenance
distro and then chroots into the main distro.  I had to hack the main
install init scripts as unmodified they stalled on some of the disk
checks so I had to comment them out.  Probally not an optimal config but
once I had spent the time I found that it seems to work.

The interesting thing will be the upgrade from 14.1 to 14.2.  Will it be
painless or will I have to re-tweak the init scripts.  I'm running btrfs
so hopefully subvolumes should give me some comfort blanket.

Pete


>
> The Dell system is wierd, it has a parallel port and a serial port but
> no PS2 ports.
>

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help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard "Rag. Filini" <filini@megaditta.it> - 2016-01-25 19:37 +0100
  Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard "Rag. Filini" <filini@megaditta.it> - 2016-01-25 19:50 +0100
    Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-01-25 21:08 +0000
      Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-01-25 21:26 +0000
        Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Ars Ivci <arsivci0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 23:33 +0200
          Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard "Rag. Filini" <filini@megaditta.it> - 2016-01-25 23:37 +0100
            Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Ars Ivci <arsivci0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 01:02 +0200
              Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-01-26 21:08 +0000
      Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-02-02 22:19 +0000
        Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-03 12:49 -0500
        Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-02-03 21:13 +0000
          Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-02-03 22:03 +0000
            Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard "Rag. Filini" <filini@megaditta.it> - 2016-02-04 12:43 +0100
            Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-02-04 21:03 +0000
    Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Ed Wilson <ewilson@jackmaxton.com> - 2016-01-26 11:40 -0500
  Re: help, luks and mkinitrd for usb keyboard Robby Workman <newsgroups@rlworkman.net> - 2016-01-27 04:10 +0000

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