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| From: | Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> |
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:40:18 |
| Message-Id: | 20120327133728.GA3754@acm.acm |
| 1 | Hello, Gentoo. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every |
| 4 | executable into /usr. If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without |
| 5 | special preperations. Nothing new here. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The method usually discussed is to copy the booting software into an |
| 8 | initramfs on a partition other than /usr, and use this to mount /usr. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting |
| 11 | software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way? |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? | Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> |
| RE: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? | Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> |