On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:54:07 +0200, Arnt wrote in message
<20170419185407.228cd18a@???>:

> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 02:21:53 +1000, Ralph wrote in message
> <d3a264ce-a767-dffc-845d-d1eb26027a3e@???>:
>
> >
> >
> > Arnt Karlsen wrote on 19/04/17 23:17:
> > [cut]
> > >
> > > ...wiped udev off my box and wound up with a box that boots oh soo
> > > fine until it tries to load my new vdev
> > > initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 ...am I the first one here to try this
> > > on a rt kernel?
> > >
> > > ..recovery ideas? Do we have any vdev live-cd?
> > >
> > > ..last time I did this stunt, I chrooted in off a Knoppix? iso,
> > > I have memdisk and a few iso links handy in /boot, and Debian's
> > > Sid vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-amd64, vmlinuz-4.8.0-2-rt-amd64 and
> > > vmlinuz-4.9.0-1-rt-amd64 with systemd-udev initrd's, but they all
> > > depend on a working install of udev AFAIK, and I'd prefer pushing
> > > thru with vdev rather than going back to udev.
> > >
> > > ..has anyone here tried downgrading to Debian Wheezy era udev?
> > >
> > >
> > > ..looking for recovery live-cd idea starting points, I came across
> > > 32-bit
> > > https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz02debiandogwheezy.html
> > > which could work both as a starting point for a live-cd and as a
> > > starting point for an upgrade path for stuck Debian Wheezy people
> > > via "Devuan-0.x Wheezy" to current Devuan-1.x Jessie.
> > >
> > > ..according to https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/ "DebianDog is
> > > very small Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like Puppy Linux.
> > > Debian structure and Debian behaviour are untouched and Debian
> > > documentation is 100% valid for DebianDog. You have access to all
> > > debian repositories using apt-get or synaptic.", creating
> > > "Devuan-0.x Wheezy Live-CD" etc is trivial, toss their repos for
> > > ours, update, upgrade and remaster, the 64-bit version likely
> > > needs to be built off deb-src lines.
> > >
> > >
> > > ..but first comes the classic chicken-and-egg 64 bit recovery
> > > I need now. ;o)
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure it helps you, but I've made a vdev variant of most
> > recent devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live.iso (time stamped
> > 2017-Mar-27 20:57) that I got from the official mirror
> > http://mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net/devuan/
> >
> > I purged a couple of things from it, then added and installed "my"
> > vdev_0.1.1_amd64.deb, and made a refractasnapshot of this, into
> > devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso, which is downloadable
> > at https://www.uk.realsam.co.uk/files/devuan/
> >
> > It boots with vdev rather than udev, and udev remains installed,
> > though with all its "competing" files tucked away. As you might
> > know, this vdev packaging is different from aitor's packaging for
> > gnuinos by not declaring a udev competition, but rather attempting
> > to manage a dynamic choice of which one is in use. The software is
> > otherwise the same, I believe.
>
> ..thanks, we shall find out. ;o)

..vdev initrd.img-4.9.0-2-rt-amd64 boot still fails, your vdev
initramfs-3.16.0-4-amd64.img now makes it as far as finding
coretemp sensors and stalls at some multipath searching, AFAIR,
I forgot to record dmesg, I'm rusty, last time was 10 years ago.


..what nasty command line tricks do I use to get online with
devuan_jessie_RC_amd64_minimal_live_vdev.iso?
(Ideally wifi, but eth0 will work.)


..and how do I get wifi up on heads-0.2?
Lan ssh didn't work on heads-0.1, eth0 would work ok
on heads-0.2 if I had a long enough wire handy.



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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.