On Jul 4, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

> hi list,
>
> during the installation (3.99.21) with sysinst I created partitions
> for /bin /sbin /usr /etc /var and a few more.
> But since /sbin is a separate partition, it isn't found during boot,
> because the mount points are mounted after /sbin/init has been
> executed.
> Is this a bug, or why are the partitions mounted that late ?
>
> Cheers, Zafer.

You probably should not split /bin and /sbin into separate  
partitions. It will be much more sensible to keep /bin and /sbin  
(and /etc) on one partition because they contain vital data and  
binaries that you need to boot into single user mode (which doesn't  
automount any extra partitions). This is the reason for vital system  
binaries going in /bin and /sbin and "important" (but not "vital")  
binaries going in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. A system can run without / 
usr being mounted at all.

I'm not an expert but I hope you might find this info to be useful.

Mike H