Systemd (through the auspices of the linux system itself) require that /usr be present and mounted by the time it is started. The easiest way to circumvent this issue (other than just moving /usr back to the rootfs) is to create an initramfs that essentially will hide from the system that /usr is split off and not pre-mounted. Systemd isn't the issue here, there isn't a way to reliably bring up a modern system with an empty /usr. There is little hope that this will be supported so your best bet will be creating an initramfs that will mount /usr on top of / before init is started. See http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd /separate-usr-is-broken/ for some more information on this issue and the reasons its pretty unlikely to be fixed. Going to set this as affecting systemd and wait for someone else to make the call on whether this really constitutes a bug.
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