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 have a hint how mounting /var/lock and /var/run work? 
In a user technical support mailing list?

Regards
  Christoph