[mdlug] Void Linux tips

[Steve Litt]

Ah! I've always used ext4.

Do you have a machine capable of hosting VMs? I'd like to see whether
you can get this to repeat itself in a Qemu VM guest. If so, I bet we
could send a gzip of that VM to the guys at Void. Also, perhaps enough
experimentation could be done effortlessly on the VM to figure out what
causes the symptom you describe.

SteveT


On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 21:53:20 +0800
Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Void-live-x86_64-20151009. TRIES cinnamon, Enlightenment, and xlde.
> 
> "dracut: scanning for all btrfs devices" over and over again. Then
> "dracut warning could not boot" and "/dev/ram0 does not exist".
> 
> Trying uname -a...
> Linux (none) 4.1.10_1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 4 07:10:51 UTC 2015
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> (and yes, mine is a 64 bit machine.)
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/24/15, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > Hi Drew. Which version of which distro does this?
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 09:14:40 +0800
> > Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Live CD boot isos look for initrd.gz, but the file is named
> >> initrd. Once fixxed, the boot proceeds for a bit, then it displays
> >> looking for btt-something-or-other-fs several  hundred times, then
> >> aborts into an initrd Failed boot session.
> >>
> >> On 10/24/15, JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Thanks Steve for sharing your experience. I looked at Void about
> >> > a month ago and liked what I saw. I am using Manajaro Openrc
> >> > right now and really like that. I know that it is not completely
> >> > free of systemd, but it is close enough for me. Plus, I like the
> >> > fact that everything is very well documented and that I have
> >> > access to the Arch repository.
> >> >
> >> > I am curious to know what you think are the advantages of Void
> >> > over a Distro like Manjaro that is not totally free of systemd.
> >> >
> >> > I will keep an eye on Void and maybe look into that in the
> >> > future.
> >> >
> >> > Jeremy
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Steve Litt
> >> > <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I recently switched over to Void Linux, a KISS principle distro
> >> >> much closer to Slack than to Ubuntu, but with an oustanding,
> >> >> full dependency handling package manager. So far, I really like
> >> >> it.
> >> >>
> >> >> I've put together a bunch of tips for installing and using
> >> >> Void, so that the next guy has an easier time than I did:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm
> >> >>
> >> >> Hope you like it.