Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to teach me how I should have looked into the error and you solved my problem. So I’ll distro hop till I find something that doesn’t panic. On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Salutations. > Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs zstd > compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael is > using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent of > Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression being > run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by Phoronix > which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression problem: Ubuntu > Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy - Phoronix > > > It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the same > problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion. > > As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed init > system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar with > the technology and didn't RTFM. > > Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult. > Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes. > Steve, Stay Sassy friend. > > TTFN > Matthew > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> > >> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for >> init, >> >> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!! >> >> > but recognize you will be missing some features (which could probably >> be done >> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and managed >> differently, >> >> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system. >> >> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support. >> >> Who ever needed init system support before systemd? >> >> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption you're >> using >> > systemd. >> >> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway? >> >> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for me >> because >> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their >> repositories which >> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I >> would be >> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts. >> >> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is >> supported. Void >> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts >> (called run >> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File. >> >> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and featureful, >> but what I >> said about runit is true of s6 too. >> >> SteveT >> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: