On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:07:33 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 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.
That /may/ happen at some time, but not now, so we need a solution that
supports the current mish-mash of /*/*bin directories.
> > 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?
How will you mount /usr if it needs a module? This is the sort of chicken
and egg situation that an initramfs can avoid, by making sure everything
the boot process needs is available.
> > 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.
Since someone has already asked about this off-list, the method is
described on sysrescd.org and involves a GRUB menu entry like
echo "Adding: System Rescue CD"
menuentry "System Rescue CD" {
set sysresiso=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.5.1.iso
loopback loop $sysresiso
linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 rootpass=whatever setkmap=uk
isoloop=$sysresiso
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
}
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