libsandbox move causing kernel panic

[chardros]

Not sure if I would clasify this as a bug, I guess it depends on why it's happening - bu I posted this in "All things Gentoo", and am also posting it here after little advice there:

I initially installed everything into one partition (/). I normally wouldn't think of doing this, but it was just a test run. After getting the system up and running, I realized I wanted some more space to play around in so I did te following:

1) created another virtual drive
2) formatted it and copied the contents of /usr to it
3) edited /etc/fstab to have it moun the new partition as /usr
4) went to single user mode and rm -rf /usr

At this point, the system was completely broken, which I thought was strange since I've done this on other flavors of linux plenty. I thought it was no big deal and rebooted since I already updated fstab.

Upon a reboot, th system kernel paniced saying it could not load libsandbox.so or something to that affect. I booted to the gentoo cd, mounted my stuff, took a peak at the new /usr partition - and it was certainly there. So I copied libsandbox.so to it's full path on the root (/) partition and restarted the system.

The system came up fine and monuted the /usr partition over the /usr dir on the root partition and it's contents as expected. It seems as though /usr is not being mounted in time or something.

I see a few poblems here:
1) With my current configuration, the libsandbox.so will not be update on the root partition when upgradin, thus the older vesion will continue to be used at boot time.
2) If this library is critical to the boot of the system, should it not be located in /lib? (I could certainly be wrong)

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestios on this matter?

[Nitro]

[chardros]

Yeah, it was a new partition. By virtual drive I was referring to the fact that I was doing this inside of VMWare (i created a new "disk" within it, and then formatted that as another partition within gentoo).

When I did the cp, I used "cp -a"

Thanks for replying - playing with it in VMWare impressed me enough. I'm starting the painful process of re-installing my primary box here at home this very evening.

Which is why I finally checked back to see if anyone had thoughts on this

[rac]

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