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(2nd Jul, 2013 05:52 PM)mk01 Wrote:  you told very little about how you tried this. downloaded image of beta1, copied /usr and /var to the other card, changed /etc/fstab and rebooted?

Sorry for being too vague, you're right. Essentially what you described is what I did. First I ensured I could run the system with /usr and /var on the same filesystem (that is, vanilla beta1 works on my rpi). Then, I copied /usr and /var to the usb stick, modified /etc/fstab, emptied the content of such directories on the sdcard, and rebooted.

This is the setup that worked for me on alpha5. Ther I had 2 ext3 partitions on the usb stick, one for /usr and one for /var, and accordingly a slightly different /etc/fstab. Now I have a single partition on the usb stick with two subvolumes.

(2nd Jul, 2013 05:52 PM)mk01 Wrote:  if so, try without "splash" on cmdline. at the end of initramfs stage, there is splash re-run from /rootfs (real root partition as specified on cmdline), what can be problem, because your /usr is not within this /rootfs. so splash won't get know about rootfs change and will stay on screen for ever.

so disable it and tell how it's going.

I did it (removed the "splash" option from cmdline.txt in /boot), and this is the output I get (Please note due to overscan I cannot read the beginning of the output!, some words are guessed...):

Code:

Checking for keyboard...
Mounting root as: mount -t btrfs -o [...] /dev/mmcblk0p2 /rootfs
[...]ing root

I can't read/guess the beginning of the third line... sorry!

After this, the system "hangs" (no activity on any led). My guess is some file in /usr/bin is not being found, but no error is reported at this stage.

As a side note: When we sort this booting issue out, once I delete the content from /usr and /var on the sdcard, I guess the @safe snapshot will still be keeping the sdcard space busy. Would it be safe to delete them?

Thanks for the support!