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Aries-Belgium
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 Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: /etc on other partition than root [SOLVED] |
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Hi,
I've put my /etc on another partition. But now I have trouble booting. My kernel gets booted but then he asks:
I tried entering a few, like 2, 3 and 5 but everytime I get something like "Nothing to do in this runlevel". I think a bit normal because he can't find the /etc folder to read the runlevels.
My question is now: can I tell the kernel in grub that my /etc is on another partition?
I boot the kernel with grub now like this:
| Code: | root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz kernel=/dev/sda4 |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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You will need to create an initrd/initramfs that mounts /etc before the init scripts run.
EDIT : Of course, I would consider doing this to be a big waste of time.
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troymc
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: |
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No.
There are only a few things really needed on your root filesystem - and /etc is one of them.
If you need to make room, move something else.
You have to have /bin, /sbin, /etc, /dev, /lib on /.
Everything else can be mounted from somewhere else.
But all of those are necessary to boot the machine.
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Aries-Belgium
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:04 am Post subject: |
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Okay, thanks for your replies.
Just copied the data on the partition to my /etc on my root and rebooted. Worked like a charm, like suspected 
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