Robin H. Johnson wrote:
The final solution in this thread:
TL;DR version: If your /usr is NOT on /, you MUST use an initramfs.
More detailed:
1. If you want /usr or /var on separate partitions (not LVM or anything
elsewhere userspace action is required to make the block devices
usable), then the minimal initramfs (or something more capable) MUST
be used so that udev is happy.
2. If your /usr, /var, root etc block devices require userspace action
(eg LVM, MD, crypto, firmware etc). You MUST use genkernel, dracut or
some other initramfs of your own creation. The proposed minimal
initramfs WILL NOT handle these situations.
The need of init* is just what I want to avoid. Seeing how this is
coming, I'm glad I didn't get /usr, /var set up on LVM just to find out
I got to put it back like it was before I put in all the effort to do it.
Pardon me for saying this, this is a crap sandwich. Whoever came up
with this should have to eat it. I hope all the people this messes up
has his/her email addy.
Dale
:-) :-)
