[arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

[clemens fischer]

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