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Author: karl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??
Alessandro:
> On 21/11/18 at 14:35, karl@??? wrote:
> > Hendrik:
> > ...
> >> Wait a moment. Haven't we already done this with /boot? Should we
> >> perhaps have /boot/sbin, and so forth?
> > /boot is a viable initrd replacement.
>
>
>   No, it is not.  An initramfs is needed to perform actions that must be
> done before the / filesystem can be mounted.  /boot does not solve the
> problem of accessing the local storage before it becomes available.


What is the problem you is pointing at ?

To boot with an uefi system you need a fat partition available before
even the bootloader is loaded, so what is the reason that you cannot
use that instead of an initrd ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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