On 04/09/2012 11:09 AM, Steven J Long wrote:
> One thing that has bothered me with the mooting of an initramfs as the new
> rescue system that rootfs has traditionally been, is at the we are told at
> the same time that the initramfs can be very minimal. If so, how does it
> provide the same capabilities as rootfs (for those of us who can localmount
> without udev-configured devices)?
We've had some discussion on this before [1], and I've suggested to copy
the content of livecd/usb recovery disk onto a spare partition so that
you can boot into that if necessary. The advantage of using this
approach is that it eliminates the burden of maintaining the "/ is a
self-contained boot disk that's independent of /usr" use case.
[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ceb908069aafdfff50e7f2d0732bf209.xml--
Thanks,
Zac
