Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: zmedico@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:34:33
Message-Id: 20120107103501.01048e39@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Zac Medico
1 On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:58:58 -0800
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > An alternative approach to a having a bulky initramfs "recovery
5 > partition" like yours would be to put the content of a livecd/usb
6 > recovery disk onto a spare partition, and configure your lean busybox
7 > initramfs to mount that as the root if something goes wrong with your
8 > real root.
9
10 And busybox again. Busybox is awfully big even when all useless tools
11 are disabled. klibc is the way to go if initramfs is not supposed to be
12 completely functional.
13
14 --
15 Best regards,
16 Michał Górny

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