Re: chroot in /usr and initrd booting
Andreas Bombe wrote:
> I have filed #146208 against shellutils almost a month ago. It's about
> the chroot binary being in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin and I didn't get any
> reaction so far.
>
> In short, when booting an initrd, after the pivot_root a chroot has to
> be done into the new root. If /usr is on a separate partition, chroot
> isn't available, boot fails.
>
> I'm tempted to raise the severity on that bug (it's normal for now), but
> I'm a bit reluctant to do that to a base package in deep freeze. Though
> it would be nice to be able to boot woody just with the tools in /bin
> and /sbin. Any thoughts on what to do?
Does this affect regular woody installs where the user just asks for
/usr to be on a seperate partition? Or does it only break on some subset
of systems that have their initrd setup tweaked in some way? I'd say the
former would be RC, and the latter not.
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