On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 23:09:59 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:50:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm thinking of separating /usr onto its own partition so that I can > > have it mounted read-only except while updating it. I'd prefer not to > > have to make an init thingy, not having needed one up to now. Besides, > > some machines have things like early-ucode or amd-uc. > > Most of this has already been answered, except for your final point. You > can load more than one initrd at boot, so you can still apply microcode > updates. For example, with systemd-boot > > title Desktop > version 5.15.59-gentoo > linux /vmlinuz-5.15.59-gentoo > options root=LABEL=blah blah > initrd /amd-uc.img > initrd /initramfs-5.15.59-gentoo.img > > I use dracut to create the initrd, which is so straighforward even Dale > can't break it ;-)
:) That seems to be the way to go then - even dinosaurs die out in the end. Perhaps Dale will show us the command he referred to. Thank you all for your help. -- Regards, Peter.
