On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:38 AM, clemens fischer wrote: > Dwight Schauer wrote: > >> 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. > > Don't you have a boot message saying "minilogd not found" or somesuch? > I don't see that in /var/log/boot. I do see the "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." in /var/log/boot. > On the other hand, rc.sysinit also invokes /sbin/bootlogd, which leaves > most of the interesting stuff in var/log/boot, so this would be an > academic exercise ... And this works even with a separate /var, but that is beside the point.