On 11/30/23 18:13, Steve Litt wrote:
> Marc Shapiro via Dng said on Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:08:49 -0800
>
>> On 11/28/23 22:05, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> First of all, I don't like the idea of usr merge. It necessitates an
>>> initramfs if /usr is mounted instead of just being off the root of
>>> the root drive. And the old way was working: Why mess with success?
>> Are you saying that as long as the system is booting using an
>> initramfs, which mine does since it usesa stock kernel, that having a
>> separate partition for /usr will not be an issue, even after all of
>> this usr-merge garbage goes into effect?
> The opposite. I'm saying that a merged system MUST HAVE an initramfs in
> order to correctly boot, unless the kernel has the driver for your boot
> disk compiled in.

Thanks for the clarification, Steve.

This can't be an issue for Daedalus, however, because this is definitely
destabilizing.  So this becomes an issue with Excalibur?  But Excalibur
isn't likely to be released by March, 2024.  This is just confusing.

Marc