[mdlug] Void Linux tips

[Drew]

I'll see what I can do when I get a chance.

On 10/24/15, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 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.
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