Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2024-06-24, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael wrote:
On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote:
Have you seen this before?
No, because I've never used dracut.
I just had a thought. I have /usr on the root partition now. Do I even >> need a init thingy?
Same question as always: does your kernel have enough built-in drivers/modules to mount the root fileystem on /?
If yes, then you don't need an initrd.
If no, then you do need an initrd.
I don't think where /usr is matters, does it?
--
Grant
My understanding, the whole init thing started with a bluetooth keyboard
or mouse driver that was installed in /usr instead of /bin or /sbin, whichever one fits. I've always had /usr on its own partition until
this time. Mostly because it is easier to put /boot and root on regular partitions and then put /usr, /var and of course /home on LVM. That way
as software like LOo, KDE and others grew, I could use LVM to grow them easily enough.
Given the merge of bin and sbin to /usr, I have no idea if a system will
boot without a init thingy or not.
This is the first time I've
ran/installed a system with those merged. I'd think it would work but I don't want to have a unbootable system to find out it doesn't either.
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