Dave Turner wrote:
> I have boot from a debian 6 squeeze CD, anything later refuses to boot the
> iMac. (Fedora has failed since fedora 13, Tinycore linux boots, Slackware
> boots) Then I do a dist-upgrade to wheezy, that takes it straight to 7.11
> which has the beginnings of systemd in it.
>
> I used aptitude to get rid of anything with systemd in the name, then I
> deleted everything systemd from /lib/systemd and etc/systemd.

There are units for starting services in /lib/systemd, but
go unused unless you have systemd installed. At least one
proof-of-concept init system, a wrapper for runit, aims at
supporting the systemd service units.

https://github.com/the-eater/shinit

The config files in /etc/systemd are equally harmless.
Probably any app that would look in /etc/systemd will be
declared with a systemd dependency.

> After a reboot
> and purge I was down to 174 packages and a working but very minimal terminal
> system. No sound no nothing, reminds me of playing Moonlander on a 300-baud
> terminal into the mainframe all those years ago...
>
> Then I did the devuan-jessie dist-upgrade. That pulled in systemd-udevd so I
> repeated what I did with wheezy - got rid of all of it! And broke it again!
> The screen font stays enormous and the keyboard doesn't work so I can't
> login.
>
> I suppose eudev is the next step once I have re-installed squeeze and
> wheezy!
>
> DaveT
>
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