mkinitrd on missing list?

[Ernest Doub]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 17 March 2013 00:57:09 Ernest Doub did opine:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 16 March 2013 23:42:20 Ernest Doub did opine:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > The next person that picks it up out of the drawer after I'm gone will
> > > not of course recognize what he has in his hand but it /will/ work
> > > better than anything he can buy.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene
> >
> > I think I've now got a near terminal case of tool envy.  8^)
> > My next suggestion was going to be a hunk of scrap steel and some mill
> > files, needle files if available.
> >
> > Ed
>
> Chuckle.:)  Point being, if you have the tools, you may as well use them.
> Besides, the carbide will strip the teeth off those files.  Waste of files.
>
> I think it also helps to keep my aging brain exercised & working.
>
> Now, to get back on topic, sorta, a question:
>
> What drivers are between an ext4 file system, and a 4 pack of terrabyte
> drives hooked to an NVidia MCP-55 sata interface?  ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mb.
>
> I am trying to build a newer kernel, but it gets 4.9 secs into the boot,
> hangs for 30 secs, and says it cannot find the / partition by its UUID &
> drops to a busybox shell.
>
> Cheers, Gene
>

Comment and question:
Was thinking of regular garden variety carbon steel [flame harden and
quench after shaping] not tool steel.
Wondering if there is a reason that the hard drive with the system on it
can't be plugged directly into the motherboard so that the bootstrap and
initialization won't have to deal with any extra drivers or hardware.
Seems to me would make for a slightly faster bootup that is also easier to
troubleshoot ~when~ it goes wahoonie shaped.
It has been documented here many times that the above described makes for a
more robust system.
Ed
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