Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-06-24, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Have you seen this before? >>> No, because I've never used dracut. >> I just had a thought. I have /usr on the root partition now. Do I even >> need a init thingy? > Same question as always: does your kernel have enough built-in > drivers/modules to mount the root fileystem on /? > > If yes, then you don't need an initrd. > > If no, then you do need an initrd. > > I don't think where /usr is matters, does it? > > -- > Grant
My understanding, the whole init thing started with a bluetooth keyboard or mouse driver that was installed in /usr instead of /bin or /sbin, whichever one fits. I've always had /usr on its own partition until this time. Mostly because it is easier to put /boot and root on regular partitions and then put /usr, /var and of course /home on LVM. That way as software like LOo, KDE and others grew, I could use LVM to grow them easily enough. Given the merge of bin and sbin to /usr, I have no idea if a system will boot without a init thingy or not. This is the first time I've ran/installed a system with those merged. I'd think it would work but I don't want to have a unbootable system to find out it doesn't either. ;-) I'm having enough fun already. LOL Dale :-) :-)
