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? > > $ which minilogd -> /usr/sbin/minilogd > > By the time /etc/rc.sysinit starts minilogd, /usr is not available, so > there's no minilogd and hence, no log of early boot messages. > > I'm thinking of solving this particular problem like this: > > minilogd requires the following libs: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K Oct 18 18:34 /usr/sbin/minilogd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.14.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4M Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/libc-2.14.so > /usr/lib32/libc.so.6: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Sep 9 01:23 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ../usr/lib32/ld-linux.so.2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141K Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/ld-2.14.so > > I don't know why it asks for libs out of usr/lib32, this output is from > (the recursive use of) readelf(1). This is on a 64bit PC. > > So I could "mount -B / /mnt/root" and copy the needed file hierarchy to > /mnt/root/usr/. Mkinitcpio already seems to be smart enough: BINARIES="/usr/sbin/minilogd" in etc/mkinitcpio.conf should do the trick. clemens
