From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R1ASo-00021x-9B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:14:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F86B21C0F1; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F08C21C091 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so6313702gxk.12 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:13:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=6szFGu3ZxVOf92uaMi9Mryp61G0FUAA1TODyWSFqQ48=; b=HVXqfIP4u5bJuKrCP1dzejldyoD/raxUCJG40x9M3v81GhXFuWVu36G/Y1Ordl09GM /KRVaPcXJObLmcUOPqqAcHcoXAQZXhNTFR0orwyJbAkeR/TP+LeM62dQDWhWmMfEJAqq mX3GeMDEW1AE0Ba+jZCkHYmHOnbfHk0QMQm5k= Received: by 10.236.125.161 with SMTP id z21mr29308438yhh.58.1315372381158; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-77-158.tx.res.rr.com [76.187.77.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i32sm2324250yhf.23.2011.09.06.22.12.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:13:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:09:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:09:52 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1515418.71ta6D0nBA@nazgul> <4E4F74D2.3090809@gmail.com> <2122673.tty0QrPrze@nazgul> <4E66A77B.5020302@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E66A77B.5020302@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d0ae39bc0d0b1e49bbf4141a0fe7d9d0 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see.=20 >=20 >=20 > Well, they are about to move some openrc things to /usr or at least that= =20 > was the way it was leaning earlier. The thread is titled "rfc: using=20 > /libexec" if you are interested. If you still don't like the idea of=20 > not being able to have /usr on a separate partition, may want to speak=20 > up soon. Once openrc stuff gets moved there, you won't boot with a=20 > separate /usr anymore. I'm not quite sure what is going to happen with this yet. If we do move openrc to /usr, there will be a way provided to boot with separate /usr. > What is happening to Linux nowadays? :/ In a nutshell, it is because of udev rules running things in /usr. That forces /usr to be available as part of the early boot sequence. This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming =66rom several upstreams. William --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5m/KAACgkQblQW9DDEZThHFwCeIIqm6WtwKVoBDeIY3xlcClxX DI4AoJ+HE7eRb1g5XbQcHMuEYNsSFru1 =xz3s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--