On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, clemens fischer wrote: >> Lucky you, I have a way to explain it: There are udev rules referencing >> stuff in /usr. If people mount /usr by-label or by-uuid, udev must have >> completed to setup those symlinks. Catch-22. > > If you want to understand this I suggest you look at the udev hook in > initramfs. There is no problem. Well, when I started this thread I did not know it get so much discussion. Anyways, I'm not worried about it any more. My root= on my kernel boot line is using /dev/by-uuid/ so if the initramfs can find the root device, I'm sure it can find the /usr device from the rootfs /etc/fstab. I've not noticed any breakage on all my system's that have a seperate /usr, apart from the message doing boot. As long as the message and any potential problems from a seperate /usr go away when the initramfs hook is completed, I'll be happy. -das