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...in today, on a 10.1 box, it would succeed as a side effect of the root-on-ZFS support, but only because it would allow /usr to come up early enough to allow the boot to proceed. I suspect if you nuked /usr, it again would fail to boot. The bottom line is that we now live in a world where even the piggiest OSes will install with room to spare on a throwaway removable flash drive. The rationale behind /usr-free single-user boots is defunct.

On Jun 8, 2015, at 8:16 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On 06/08/2015 09:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 6/8/2015 6:29 PM, Peter wrote: >>> You can thank Fedora for making that rather pointless change and >>> breaking that capability. >> >> that 'capability' was a holdover of the 1980s when disks were >> measured in