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

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue Oct 25 11:53:30 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM, clemens fischer
<ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>
>> No. Even if things fail entirely, we will provide a hook for
>> mkinitcpio that mounts /usr before switching to the real root
>> filesystem. This will eliminate all your potential bugs. However
>> - this hook hasn't been written yet.
>
> Imagine somebody with a desktop arch-linux.  For some reason his system
> "fails entirely".  Should he or she now mess with a live-CD to backport
> the yet unwritten hook once it is finished and doodle on his thumbs
> waiting for it?  Reinstall everything?

Clarifying again: nothing is more broken now than it used to be, and
no one are forced to do anything. We are just now pointing out that
things _are_ broken, so people should beware.

-t


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