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Barry Kauler on EasyOS, Latest 4 Updates
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Barry Kauler ☛ Examining another hang at bootup
Easy 7.0.6 has a mechanism to log the cause of hanging after the message "Loading kernel modules..." in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script, described here: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ Choose aufs or overlay on the kernel commandline
The 'init' script in the initrd reads "qfix=option1,option2,option3" from the kernel commandline, where those options are a comma-separated list of bootup choices. In the old Puppy GNU/Linux days, it was called "pfix".
However, most of these options can be chosen in the menu in the initrd, posted about with photos yesterday: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ Detect inserted optical media fixed
This has been a bug "under the radar" for a long time. I never noticed it, because I never use optical media. Forum member CF-DKS reported inserting a CD and the icon did not appear on the desktop: [...]
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Barry Kauler ☛ udev from systemd compiled with instructions from LFS
I have posted about so many problems with udev, actually the eudev package provided by Devuan. Today I noticed that the non-systemd LFS (Linux From Scratch) has abandoned eudev, and is instead pulling it out of systemd, with some hacks so it doesn't need systemd. Then I vaguely recalled reading some other non-systemd distro doing the same thing.