varlock and varrun

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

I wrote:

> I generated a minimal edgy system by debootstrap, copied that system
> to a machine with fresh formatted partitions and installed a kernel
> and a bootloader. After rebooting, the machine did not fully come up
> and I found out that the reason for that was that /var/lock and
> /var/run had not been mounted. After some investigation I found out
> that /var/lock and /var/run should be mounted by S01mountkernfs.sh and
> I wonder how that is possible when S35mountall.sh is run later,
> because the mountpoints /var/lock and /var/run cannot be present
> before mounting /var, what normally should be done by S35mountall.sh.
> 
> In spite of that, after a normal CD-installation the machine boots
> successfully. But I cannot find the significant difference between a
> CD-installation and my debootstrap-installation.
> 
> Does anybody know why mounting /var/lock and /var/run works ok after
> installing from CD?

Does really nobody here know how Ubuntu manages to mount /var/lock and
/var/run before /var? In a user technical support list?

Regards
  Christoph