Hi, Neil. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:56:36PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:01:32 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > Read my other mail and pay attention to the difference between > > > transient and persistent. > > In my proposed solution, the executables in /sbin would only exist until > > /usr had been mounted and the runtime PATH set up. After the > > unification of /usr, /sbin won't even exist (apart from in schemes like > > mine). > What happens to files that are installed to /bin, /sbin or /lib by > default? Aren't they getting shoved into /usr? I thought that was the whole point of the excercise. > Where do kernel modules go? I hadn't actually thought of that - I've never built a kernel with modules enabled. Where do kernel modules go? Won't they be going into /usr somewhere? Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I don't know if it's true or not. > > I look forward with foreboding to the time when such recovery will not > > be possible. Only a legacy Gentoo system or a recovery CD will help > > then. I think it highly probable that "can't boot" bugs will continue > > to happen occasionally. I'd like to carry on having a bootable > > skeleton system for when this happens. > When an initramfs fails to boot, it drops you to a busybox shell, ... You know, that cheers me up a lot. > ...although I also have a SystemRescueCD ISO in /boot for such > situations. I suppose I could do with that, too. And I should learn how to use it. > -- > Neil Bothwick > Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses I wear spectacular glasses. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
