Re: [blfs-support] Systemd issues
On 03/16/2014 02:55 PM, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, I have completed the installation of the lfs 7.5 systemd, and have an interesting and annoying issue. I have a separate /usr partition and no matter what I have tried, even though it is LISTED in /etc/fstab it just will not get mounted at boot time. Would creating the intitramfs file correct this issue? I have read the separate usr is broken wiki artical from systemd. I just want to make sure that going through that work is going to actually solve it, before doing so. I have never had a partition refuse to mount at boot time before. If I issue mount -a after I have booted it happily does so. Regards, Christopher Unfortunately, systemd doesn't support split /usr at boot time. It has to be mounted in an initramfs. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Hello, This is starting to do my head in, I have created the initramfs image as per the instructions, and it does load correctly, however it still does not solve the problem of mounting the /usr partition. What do I need to add to the scripts to mount the seperate /usr partition to shut systemd up? I tried manually creating the symlink to usr.mount and editing it to match the other files and it just blindly deletes it again and places the file back in the initrd needs directory. I know that is not the correct directory name. I really would appreciate some assistance on this as I am getting no where on it. I only re-installed and decided to try this as I was getting no where with the phonon-vlc-backend. I have in the past created an initrd image from the kernel source, but that was on a debian system and a few years back now. Regards, Christopher -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Systemd issues
On 03/17/2014 10:57 AM, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: On 03/16/2014 02:55 PM, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, I have completed the installation of the lfs 7.5 systemd, and have an interesting and annoying issue. I have a separate /usr partition and no matter what I have tried, even though it is LISTED in /etc/fstab it just will not get mounted at boot time. Would creating the intitramfs file correct this issue? I have read the separate usr is broken wiki artical from systemd. I just want to make sure that going through that work is going to actually solve it, before doing so. I have never had a partition refuse to mount at boot time before. If I issue mount -a after I have booted it happily does so. Regards, Christopher Unfortunately, systemd doesn't support split /usr at boot time. It has to be mounted in an initramfs. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Hello, This is starting to do my head in, I have created the initramfs image as per the instructions, and it does load correctly, however it still does not solve the problem of mounting the /usr partition. What do I need to add to the scripts to mount the seperate /usr partition to shut systemd up? I tried manually creating the symlink to usr.mount and editing it to match the other files and it just blindly deletes it again and places the file back in the initrd needs directory. I know that is not the correct directory name. I really would appreciate some assistance on this as I am getting no where on it. I only re-installed and decided to try this as I was getting no where with the phonon-vlc-backend. I have in the past created an initrd image from the kernel source, but that was on a debian system and a few years back now. Regards, Christopher initramfs scripts have to mount /usr in new root before switch-root and before systemd has been started. I doubt that default blfs initramfs does that. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[blfs-support] Systemd issues
Hello, I have completed the installation of the lfs 7.5 systemd, and have an interesting and annoying issue. I have a separate /usr partition and no matter what I have tried, even though it is LISTED in /etc/fstab it just will not get mounted at boot time. Would creating the intitramfs file correct this issue? I have read the separate usr is broken wiki artical from systemd. I just want to make sure that going through that work is going to actually solve it, before doing so. I have never had a partition refuse to mount at boot time before. If I issue mount -a after I have booted it happily does so. Regards, Christopher -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] Systemd issues
On 03/16/2014 02:55 PM, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: Hello, I have completed the installation of the lfs 7.5 systemd, and have an interesting and annoying issue. I have a separate /usr partition and no matter what I have tried, even though it is LISTED in /etc/fstab it just will not get mounted at boot time. Would creating the intitramfs file correct this issue? I have read the separate usr is broken wiki artical from systemd. I just want to make sure that going through that work is going to actually solve it, before doing so. I have never had a partition refuse to mount at boot time before. If I issue mount -a after I have booted it happily does so. Regards, Christopher Unfortunately, systemd doesn't support split /usr at boot time. It has to be mounted in an initramfs. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
