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On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:09:59 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:50:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I'm thinking of separating /usr onto its own partition so that I can |
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> > have it mounted read-only except while updating it. I'd prefer not to |
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> > have to make an init thingy, not having needed one up to now. Besides, |
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> > some machines have things like early-ucode or amd-uc. |
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> Most of this has already been answered, except for your final point. You |
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> can load more than one initrd at boot, so you can still apply microcode |
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> updates. For example, with systemd-boot |
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> title Desktop |
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> version 5.15.59-gentoo |
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> linux /vmlinuz-5.15.59-gentoo |
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> options root=LABEL=blah blah |
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> initrd /amd-uc.img |
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> initrd /initramfs-5.15.59-gentoo.img |
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> I use dracut to create the initrd, which is so straighforward even Dale |
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> can't break it ;-) |
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:) |
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That seems to be the way to go then - even dinosaurs die out in the end. |
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Perhaps Dale will show us the command he referred to. |
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Thank you all for your help. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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