On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have this ARM project for which I have installed Fedora 17 armv5tel on a > SD card. The installation is one small FAT partition where the kernel and > initramfs files can be placed, and one EXT3 partition where the root > filesystem lives. This mode of operation boots correctly. > > Now I want to move the contents of /usr to a separate partition, and lock > this partition read-only. After some investigation on how to coax the > bootloader to load the initramfs, I managed to boot the kernel with the > initramfs, only to find out that it wants to run /sbin/init . The /sbin is a > symlink that should end up in /usr, but I specify the root filesystem as the > rootfs in the kernel commandline, and the initramfs has not mounted /usr to > resolve all of the symlinks, even after specifying the device in /etc/fstab. > After some googling, it seems that the /usr separation was not fully > implemented in Fedora 17, but was completed in Fedora 18. > > What do I have to do to enable the /usr separation in Fedora 17? I do not > really want to port the entire project to Fedora 18, and I think it will be > easier to just grab the relevant packages or patches from Fedora 18, > recompile for Fedora 17, install, and then separate the filesystem as > indicated. Is this doable? What packages should I pick from Fedora 18? I > know that Fedora 17 is EOL, and I do not expect any updated packages for > this, but I can recompile packages. You can't have /usr on a separate partition. It's plain not supported anymore. Details in the link below and it's off topic for the ARM list as it's a generic Fedora issue and has been the case for some time (F-16 or there abouts from memory) http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
