[gentoo-user] Re: HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2019-08-04 19:36, Grant Taylor wrote:

> Create the bin and sbin directories inside of the /usr directory that
> is the mount point so that they are on the underlying file system that
> /usr is mounted over top of.  Then copy the needed binaries to the
> /usr/bin & /usr/sbin directories on the underlying file system.  That
> way, /sbin/fsck -> /usr/sbin/fsck still exists even before the real
> /usr is mounted.

Don't you have to go through some extra hoops (a flag to the mount
command or something) to mount over a non-empty directory?

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