Evening, Neil. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:35:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:56:28 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > I think I have the elegant solution: that would be for the kernel to be > > able to mount several partitions at system initialisation rather than > > just the root partition. With this, all the issues we've been > > discussing simply wouldn't arise. > That's an excellent idea. > > I accept that this solution will never happen. Sadly. > It's already happened here. My kernel mounts / and /usr thanks to the > inbuilt initramfs That's exactly what I didn't mean, and I think you might have been aware of that. What I did mean was being able to mount subsequent partitions by giving kernel parameters in the boot loader configuration file. Something like "mount=8,3:/usr" for mount /dev/sda3 /usr. This would avoid the need to spend any effort whatsoever on building an initramfs, yet /usr would be mounted early in boot. > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
