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* [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
@ 2012-03-27 13:37 Alan Mackenzie
  2012-03-27 13:48 ` Michael Mol
  2012-03-27 14:02 ` Mike Edenfield
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 99+ messages in thread
From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2012-03-27 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello, Gentoo.

I've been thinking about the problem of the conflation of every
executable into /usr.  If /usr isn't on /, the system can't boot without
special preperations.  Nothing new here.

The method usually discussed is to copy the booting software into an
initramfs on a partition other than /usr, and use this to mount /usr.

My question: what, technically, prevents me from copying the booting
software instead to /sbin and booting the system that way?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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2012-03-27 13:37 [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 13:48 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 14:02 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 14:19   ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 14:26   ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 14:38     ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-27 14:46     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 17:55       ` [gentoo-user] " che
2012-03-27 18:41         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-28 18:43           ` che
2012-03-27 19:56         ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 21:24           ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 21:41             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:01               ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 22:39                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 23:32                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28  7:47                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:53                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 21:48             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 22:35               ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 22:54                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:55                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-28 14:01                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28 14:56                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 17:07                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28 17:40                         ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 21:47                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 22:45                           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-03-28 23:25                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29  1:53                         ` Dale
2012-03-29  2:07                           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-29  2:39                             ` Dale
2012-03-29  5:08                               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-29 20:15                                 ` Dale
2012-03-29 20:53                                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02  7:41                                     ` Dale
2012-04-02 13:33                                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02 19:54                                         ` Dale
2012-04-02 20:28                                           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02 21:21                                             ` Dale
2012-04-02 21:37                                               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03  0:19                                                 ` Dale
2012-04-02 22:08                                       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-02 22:21                                         ` Dale
2012-04-02 22:41                                           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03  0:19                                             ` Dale
2012-04-03  0:35                                               ` Pandu Poluan
2012-04-03  1:03                                                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03  1:29                                                   ` Dale
2012-04-03  1:01                                               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03  1:19                                                 ` Dale
2012-04-03  2:08                                                   ` Dale
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2012-04-03  2:43                                                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03  3:12                                                       ` Dale
2012-04-03  5:32                                                         ` Dale
2012-04-03 12:46                                                         ` Mike Edenfield
2012-04-03 13:21                                                           ` Dale
2012-04-03 17:48                                                             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04  0:02                                                               ` Dale
2012-04-04  1:59                                                                 ` William Kenworthy
2012-04-04  2:55                                                                   ` Dale
2012-04-04  3:12                                                                     ` Dale
2012-04-04  3:19                                                                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04  7:48                                                                         ` Dale
2012-04-04  9:05                                                                           ` Dale
2012-04-04  9:22                                                                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04  9:54                                                                               ` Dale
2012-04-04 11:22                                                                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04 23:37                                                                                   ` Dale
2012-04-04 17:23                                                                                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04 23:35                                                                                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04 23:39                                                                                   ` Dale
2012-03-29 21:11                                   ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-29 21:32                                     ` Dale
2012-03-30 13:48                                       ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-29 21:52                                   ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28  4:24                 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28  4:55                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-28 17:27                     ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28  6:17                   ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-28  6:19                     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-28  7:43                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29  2:16                       ` Dale
2012-03-29  8:52                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 17:36                     ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-29 15:56                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-29 16:35                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 17:13                       ` Michael Mol
2012-03-29 18:11                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 18:35                           ` Michael Mol
2012-03-30  0:04                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-30  2:10                               ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-30  3:17                                 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-30  0:10                             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 17:29                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-29 18:04                         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 18:10                     ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 19:14           ` che
2012-03-27 15:30     ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield

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