On Mar 28, 2012 1:17 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 28, 2012 11:27 AM, "Mike Edenfield" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Well, for one, the initramfs solution is not generally considered "ugly" > > except by a select vocal few who object to it on vague, unarticulated > > grounds. > > Check out the email from William Kenworth in this mailing list; he's having trouble with initramfs being a blackbox. > > As a (mostly) server guy, I much prefer using a whitebox. > > I happen to have /usr on a VHD, so I don't need an initramfs for booting (that, plus my production servers are all udev-less). If push comes to shove, what I'll do is create a vestigial /usr in the root partition, and have it overlaid by mounting the actual root over it.
That should be: "mounting the actual /usr over it." Rgds,
