3:30 p.m.
I have this ARM project for which I have installed Fedora 17 armv5tel on a SD card. The
installation is one small FAT partition where the kernel and initramfs files can be
placed, and one EXT3 partition where the root filesystem lives. This mode of
operation boots correctly.
Now I want to move the contents of /usr to a separate partition, and lock this partition
read-only. After some investigation on how to coax the bootloader to load the initramfs, I
managed to boot the kernel with the initramfs, only to find out that it
wants to run /sbin/init . The /sbin is a symlink that should end up in /usr, but I specify
the root filesystem as the rootfs in the kernel commandline, and the initramfs has not
mounted /usr to resolve all of the symlinks, even after specifying the device
in /etc/fstab. After some googling, it seems that the /usr separation was not fully
implemented in Fedora 17, but was completed in Fedora 18.
What do I have to do to enable the /usr separation in Fedora 17? I do not really want to
port the entire project to Fedora 18, and I think it will be easier to just grab the
relevant packages or patches from Fedora 18, recompile for Fedora 17, install, and
then separate the filesystem as indicated. Is this doable? What packages should I pick
from Fedora 18? I know that Fedora 17 is EOL, and I do not expect any updated packages for
this, but I can recompile packages.
5:04 p.m.
Why use armv5tel redundant soft float when pidora armv6hl hardfloat is
the go at the moment ?
Adrian ... vk4tux
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis(a)palosanto.com>
To: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: [fedora-arm] How do I enable mounting /usr as a separate
(read-only) partition on Fedora 17?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:30:13 -0500
I have this ARM project for which I have installed Fedora 17 armv5tel on a SD card. The
installation is one small FAT partition where the kernel and initramfs files can be
placed, and one EXT3 partition where the root filesystem lives. This mode of
operation boots correctly.
Now I want to move the contents of /usr to a separate partition, and lock this partition
read-only. After some investigation on how to coax the bootloader to load the initramfs, I
managed to boot the kernel with the initramfs, only to find out that it
wants to run /sbin/init . The /sbin is a symlink that should end up in /usr, but I specify
the root filesystem as the rootfs in the kernel commandline, and the initramfs has not
mounted /usr to resolve all of the symlinks, even after specifying the device
in /etc/fstab. After some googling, it seems that the /usr separation was not fully
implemented in Fedora 17, but was completed in Fedora 18.
What do I have to do to enable the /usr separation in Fedora 17? I do not really want to
port the entire project to Fedora 18, and I think it will be easier to just grab the
relevant packages or patches from Fedora 18, recompile for Fedora 17, install, and
then separate the filesystem as indicated. Is this doable? What packages should I pick
from Fedora 18? I know that Fedora 17 is EOL, and I do not expect any updated packages for
this, but I can recompile packages.
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9:19 a.m.
El 20/11/13 18:04, Adrian escribió:
Why use armv5tel redundant soft float when pidora armv6hl hardfloat
is the go at the moment ?
Adrian ... vk4tux
This project does not (only) run on raspberry pi. The board is a DaVinci-based one
that supports armv5tel only.
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*From*: Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis(a)palosanto.com
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*Subject*: [fedora-arm] How do I enable mounting /usr as a separate (read-only) partition
on Fedora 17?
*Date*: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:30:13 -0500
I have this ARM project for which I have installed Fedora 17 armv5tel on a SD card. The
installation is one small FAT partition where the kernel and initramfs files can be
placed, and one EXT3 partition where the root filesystem lives. This mode of
operation boots correctly.
Now I want to move the contents of /usr to a separate partition, and lock this partition
read-only. After some investigation on how to coax the bootloader to load the initramfs, I
managed to boot the kernel with the initramfs, only to find out that it
wants to run /sbin/init . The /sbin is a symlink that should end up in /usr, but I
specify the root filesystem as the rootfs in the kernel commandline, and the initramfs has
not mounted /usr to resolve all of the symlinks, even after specifying the device
in /etc/fstab. After some googling, it seems that the /usr separation was not fully
implemented in Fedora 17, but was completed in Fedora 18.
What do I have to do to enable the /usr separation in Fedora 17? I do not really want to
port the entire project to Fedora 18, and I think it will be easier to just grab the
relevant packages or patches from Fedora 18, recompile for Fedora 17, install, and
then separate the filesystem as indicated. Is this doable? What packages should I pick
from Fedora 18? I know that Fedora 17 is EOL, and I do not expect any updated packages for
this, but I can recompile packages.
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4:49 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Alex Villacís Lasso
<a_villacis(a)palosanto.com> wrote:
I have this ARM project for which I have installed Fedora 17 armv5tel
on a
SD card. The installation is one small FAT partition where the kernel and
initramfs files can be placed, and one EXT3 partition where the root
filesystem lives. This mode of operation boots correctly.
Now I want to move the contents of /usr to a separate partition, and lock
this partition read-only. After some investigation on how to coax the
bootloader to load the initramfs, I managed to boot the kernel with the
initramfs, only to find out that it wants to run /sbin/init . The /sbin is a
symlink that should end up in /usr, but I specify the root filesystem as the
rootfs in the kernel commandline, and the initramfs has not mounted /usr to
resolve all of the symlinks, even after specifying the device in /etc/fstab.
After some googling, it seems that the /usr separation was not fully
implemented in Fedora 17, but was completed in Fedora 18.
What do I have to do to enable the /usr separation in Fedora 17? I do not
really want to port the entire project to Fedora 18, and I think it will be
easier to just grab the relevant packages or patches from Fedora 18,
recompile for Fedora 17, install, and then separate the filesystem as
indicated. Is this doable? What packages should I pick from Fedora 18? I
know that Fedora 17 is EOL, and I do not expect any updated packages for
this, but I can recompile packages.
You can't have /usr on a separate partition. It's plain not supported
anymore. Details in the link below and it's off topic for the ARM list
as it's a generic Fedora issue and has been the case for some time
(F-16 or there abouts from memory)
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken/
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