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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: How stable is the frozen stretch? |
| Date | 2017-05-16 13:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tHIGe-4Ub-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <tGWrU-794-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <tGYtH-8oZ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <tH0ca-13Y-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <tH2dX-2fX-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <tHtxw-3GH-15@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 05/15/2017 02:06 PM, deloptes wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 05/14/2017 06:46 AM, David Wright wrote: >>> On Sun 14 May 2017 at 04:57:07 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: >>>> On 05/14/2017 02:40 AM, Joe wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 13 May 2017 20:54:04 -0400 >>>>> RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 05/13/2017 12:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>>>>>> I have a partition whose label is "common". >>>>>> >>>>>> I could almost smack myself in the head. I had done that when I used >>>>>> to dual-boot Windows / Linux (now you can see why I'm not a fan of >>>>>> dual-boot, I guess! LOL!). I also used to dual boot SolydX and SolydK >>>>>> distributions. >>>>>> >>>>>> In my VMs, I do use the guest additions and have a shared directory >>>>>> (necessity for what I need to do as well). >>>>>> >>>>>> But that was one way I had shared data. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, I still balk at dual-booting (like you balk at VMs :) ) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Another option I've used for some years: a pocket-sized USB hard drive >>>>> with an i386 all-modules installation, which boots on practically >>>>> anything that isn't an ARM. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can you clarify what you mean by the phrase "i386 all-modules >>>> installation"? >>> >>> Recall this d-i screen? >> >> I do now ;) >> Actually initrd and initramfs and were on my "google today" list. >> That may that may explain something I've recently noticed. >> As I experiment with many Debian versions and configurations I routinely >> can multi-boot among a a half dozen (or more) choices. >> >> As I've had some spectacularly failed installs, my practice is to >> install Grub *ONLY* with the *FIRST* install. That way the default >> action is to boot a known good system and the questionable one will >> generally be last on the list (Grub insists on listing /dev/sda10 before >> /dev/sda2). >> >> What I'm investigating is an apparent anomaly: >> 1. My primary machine had Jessie installed first with Squeeze >> and Stretch later. It happily will boot all. >> 2. I've set up a designated EXPERIMENTAL machine. Squeeze was >> installed first and thus Grub is associated with it. >> Wheezy and Jessie were installed without Grub. >> Squeeze runs fine and will browse the web. >> However, update-grub does not recognize either Wheezy or Jessie. >> Also, a netinst of Stretch failed at the network setup step - >> haven't done any trouble shooting yet. >> >> Two questions: >> 1. Can I retroactively choose "include all available drivers" and >> if so, how? >> 2. How much free space would be required? As I was already planning >> on some Grub experiments, I had left 10 MB un-partitioned before >> /dev/sda1. That can easily be expanded. >> >> TIA > > If you like hacking the initrd Not one of my life goals <chuckle> > > mkdir test && cd test && zcat /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` | cpio -Hnewc -i > I may not be "prophet or son of a prophet", but I see a "lab practical" on parsing in my future. > ... > > find . ! -name *~ | cpio -H newc --create | gzip -9 >> /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` > > I foundthisvery useful over the years, especially for testing things > out 10MB would be enough for 1 kernel+initrd & co While I was tweaking my "EXPERIMENTAL machine" partitioning for unrelated reasons, left the first GB unallocated. > > I wouldn't use dedicated boot partition in your case. For testing > you can leave all on one partition. If you use dedicated boot > partition and want to share it among different installs - watch out > to not format it ... and you must keep all your kernels+initrd there. > I'm unclear as to "dedicated boot partition" above. My typical install procedure results in a directory structure as below: richard@stretch-2nd:/$ dir bin etc initrd.img.old media proc sbin tmp vmlinuz boot home lib mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old dev initrd.img lost+found opt run sys var Are you referring to the "boot" in that list? I've may have been a computer *user* for a half-century. But I have little formal background ;} > regards > > >
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