On 24/10/2019 15:43, Mike Scott wrote:
> Conjecture (for now) - ld.so.preload moaned about missing files from
> /usr/lib. But these aren't available until /usr is mounted, which I
> presume must happen /after/ the preload stuff. Maybe I'll go back to the
> original setup and put these files into the root partition, so they're
> present before /usr is mounted. Bet it works then :-}

It is possible to have a minimal /usr in the boot partition and mouunt
the proper one over it post boot.

I.e. you can mount drives on a populated mount point.

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