On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: [..]
Regarding the objections above, which are primarily concerned with the creation of a non-generic initramfs, how does this alternative suggestion sound: - The addition of usr= options analogous to the root= options which permit the bootloader to specify the /usr filesystem to mount. By default would do nothing, but grub could be updated to generate such options on systems with a separate /usr.
Nonsense, should come from /etc/fstab.
- We could also add an additional etc= option with the same semantics.
Something like this would be necessary to support separately mounted /etc, but I see that as a completely separate discussion. Also note that you would need to patch _all_ existing bootloaders for _all_ arches to automatically include that option in any generated config file (namely by parsing the one&only main config location which is /etc/fstab or possibly /etc/fstab.d).
Related issue: how to specify desired fsck options (such as FSCKFIX) for / and /etc, while /etc is not yet mounted.
Next, you'll be arguing that /etc/fstab should be moved to /. And /etc/default/rcS too.
Oh, and now that I'm at it, do we also have initramfs support for bootlogd? and keyboard-setup? and hwclockfirst? (Last two could be required for proper fsck on various arches.) Plus their config files.
Best regards, Anne Bezemer