[gentoo-user] network boot broken by changes in init scripts over last few months

[Dan Farrell]

friends, 

has anybody else come across the problem updating their initscripts and
breaking network booting in the last few months?  

right when checkroot says "Remounting root filesystem read/write..."
the system hangs, and eventually init says it couldn't be mounted
read/write and frowns, and suggests I give the root password or
reboot.  

I've tracked down the problem.  Seems as though statd can't start
because the root filesystem is mounted read-only, but the filesystem
can't be mounted read-write until statd starts.  I have not been able
to convince statd to run without logging its pid in /var; thus it
requires write access to var.  

The only workaround I've concocted so far is to bind a bit of /dev over
to /var, where it can be written to.  Unfortunately, that mounting
point is likely lost when / is remounted read-write, thereby destroying
any record of the pid statd was so insistent about documenting.

Needless to say I'd like to solve the problem the right way.  However,
the init scripts are a complex bunch for me and I'm not sure how to go
about fixing this.  

I was hoping one of you might be able to guide me.  Any thoughts?  

Thanks, 
	Dan Farrell
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