On Mar 28, 2012 11:27 AM, "Mike Edenfield" <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > > > Well, for one, the initramfs solution is not generally considered "ugly" > except by a select vocal few who object to it on vague, unarticulated > grounds.
Check out the email from William Kenworth in this mailing list; he's having trouble with initramfs being a blackbox. As a (mostly) server guy, I much prefer using a whitebox. I happen to have /usr on a VHD, so I don't need an initramfs for booting (that, plus my production servers are all udev-less). If push comes to shove, what I'll do is create a vestigial /usr in the root partition, and have it overlaid by mounting the actual root over it. Synchronizing can be automated by bindmounting root, after which I can access its (vestigial) usr directory. Rgds,
