Re: a place for a package directory in root

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:

> [Goswin von Brederlow]
>> Nothing is available before init is started, init is always the
>> first thing to start, even on initrd or initramfs (some archs call
>> init linuxrc though).
>
> You suspect you miss the point.  bootchartd is a init _replacement_.
> We use it by passing init=/sbin/bootchartd to the kernel.  It starts
> recording statistics about the boot, and then run init to continue the
> boot process.

Then you are init. :)

My suggestion still stands. You have to mount /run or /dev/shm to make
a place that is writable.

MfG
        Goswin