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To be precise, there is a single installer image that you boot and use to create the partition layout. Then you pick a stage 3 tarball and unpack it into the ro
by Arnavion 3y ago
To be precise, there is a single installer image that you boot and use to create the partition layout. Then you pick a stage 3 tarball and unpack it into the root partition, and this tarball is either OpenRC-specific or systemd-specific.
Yes it is possible to change your mind and switch from one to the other after installation, but it's not straightforward.
- djbusby 3y agoIIRC the Kernel needs to know which one you use too.
- Flowdalic 3y agoThe kernel usually just needs to know which binary to execute as init, which is often provided as kernel command line argument by the bootloader.
- djbusby 3y agoI use syslinux, which is manually updated, no init is passed in. In the Gentoo kernel make menuconfig there are options for Systemd vs OpenRC - not entirely sure what they do.