hmm... what is not working?

The boot message is directory not found, using / as home. I follwed mika's instructions to the letter.

It was a hack anyway. The reason for it was that user manager commands won't move root, either.

M

Please provide the commands you are using

Exactly the commands you gave (link).

Steps:

0. boot live CD 1. run grml2hd to usb drive with mbr 2. reboot to usb drive, login as root 3. make changes you gave: cp -a /root /home/ mv /root /root.old ln -s /home/root /root 4. reboot to usb drive again

M

Does it affect root user only? How about other users who don't use symlinks? Is you /home on the same volume as your root file system (/)?

The test was root user only with home on a separate partition.

The symlink idea was only a hack from mika, so I don't want to spend more time on it. The real bug is that user management commands fail for the most important user.

That effort may be more for Debian than grml, I don't know. But it should be fixed.

M

Once again: please list the "user management commands" that "fail for the most important user" - otherwise I can't reproduce it in my own, sorry.

regards, -mika-

Just search through my old messages on the subject: useradd, userdel, usermod, adduser, etc. It is a whole class of commands.

Debian actually has two tiers of account commands, where one is considered "low-level" and one "high level." That's why it has both "adduser" and "useradd"... for some reason.

Thank you mika for being the best.

M