Marc:
> Several years ago I was trying to premount a separate partition for
> /lib/modules.  I have multiple releases bootable on the system and I
> wanted a single place to store the modules, since they can take up a lot
> of disk space.
...

Yes, I frankly don't know why the moudules are places in /, since the
modules is realted to kernels, wouln't it be more logical to have them
in /boot, where the kernels are placed.

Sorry, but I don't have an answer to your question.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar