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Evening, Neil. |
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:35:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:56:28 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > I think I have the elegant solution: that would be for the kernel to be |
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> > able to mount several partitions at system initialisation rather than |
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> > just the root partition. With this, all the issues we've been |
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> > discussing simply wouldn't arise. |
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> That's an excellent idea. |
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> > I accept that this solution will never happen. Sadly. |
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> It's already happened here. My kernel mounts / and /usr thanks to the |
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> inbuilt initramfs |
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That's exactly what I didn't mean, and I think you might have been aware |
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of that. |
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What I did mean was being able to mount subsequent partitions by giving |
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kernel parameters in the boot loader configuration file. Something like |
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"mount=8,3:/usr" for mount /dev/sda3 /usr. |
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This would avoid the need to spend any effort whatsoever on building an |
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initramfs, yet /usr would be mounted early in boot. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |