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On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> My partitions are something like this. Normal partitions, /boot and |
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>> root itself. /usr and /var on LVM. |
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> Gentoo dropped support for booting without mounting /usr early in boot |
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> a while back. That isn't to say that it would have instantly stopped |
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> working, but there is no requirement for package maintainers to |
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> support this configuration, and many upstreams have been moving in |
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> directions that will tend to break this. |
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> There are many ways to get around this. The most common is to mount |
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> /usr from your initramfs. Another option is to run a script early |
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> during boot to mount /usr, ensuring that the necessary tools to do so |
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> are on your root partition. Another option is to put /usr on your |
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> root partition. I'm sure there are other options as well, but in |
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> general you can't always rely on your root partition being able to |
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> mount /usr these days. |
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FTR, there's also a busybox "sep-usr" USE flag. |
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It installs a static busybox at "/ginit". |
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When you use "init=/ginit" at the kernel cmdline, it mounts "/usr" |
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early and then executes "/sbin/init". |
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