Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:30:58 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > > How will you make sure installations of the same binaries are > > installed/copied in both underlying and mounted /usr/* fs and kept > > in sync? By changing all affected ebuilds? > > I don't have an answer to this qustion. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/5/19 5:45 AM, Mick wrote: Interesting concept, thanks for sharing. You're welcome. Unless I misunderstand how this will work, it will create duplication of the fs for /bin and /sbin, which will both use extra space and require managing. Yes, it will create some duplication. Though I

Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday, 5 August 2019 02:36:31 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > > I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow > > /usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs / > > initrd. (I'll reply in another email with

[gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow /usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs / initrd. (I'll reply in another email with details to avoid polluting this thread.) I think that a variation of