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 1SDJCp-0005TQ-0C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:32:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35507E0C21; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7E1E0BD7 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26490 invoked by uid 3782); 29 Mar 2012 17:30:28 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B3B6.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.179.182]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:30:26 +0200 Received: (qmail 7687 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Mar 2012 17:29:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:29:11 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? Message-ID: <20120329172911.GD2961@acm.acm> References: <20120327142646.GB3754@acm.acm> <20120327154620.21440f87@digimed.co.uk> <86iphq0vza.fsf@jane.chrekh.se> <003e01cd0c53$a2e99b90$e8bcd2b0$@kutulu.org> <20120327212422.GA3437@acm.acm> <20120327234819.45111444@khamul.example.com> <20120327223544.GC3437@acm.acm> <01bf01cd0c9a$a2259000$e670b000$@kutulu.org> <20120329155628.GC2961@acm.acm> <20120329173535.2c5482fd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120329173535.2c5482fd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 9f7eae18-8d12-43b5-bee5-e60b16cf7feb X-Archives-Hash: f34bef68a544baf4b7b4cd30340ff04c Evening, Neil. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:35:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:56:28 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I think I have the elegant solution: that would be for the kernel to be > > able to mount several partitions at system initialisation rather than > > just the root partition. With this, all the issues we've been > > discussing simply wouldn't arise. > That's an excellent idea. > > I accept that this solution will never happen. Sadly. > It's already happened here. My kernel mounts / and /usr thanks to the > inbuilt initramfs That's exactly what I didn't mean, and I think you might have been aware of that. What I did mean was being able to mount subsequent partitions by giving kernel parameters in the boot loader configuration file. Something like "mount=8,3:/usr" for mount /dev/sda3 /usr. This would avoid the need to spend any effort whatsoever on building an initramfs, yet /usr would be mounted early in boot. > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).