Bug#765622: bug only occurs using dracut

[Thomas Lange]

This is strange. I just did an installation of a new system with 
separate /, /usr and /var partitions.

Using systemd 215-5+b1 and initramfs-tools works without any hassle.

ii  libsystemd0:amd64                     215-5+b1                    amd64        systemd utility library
ii  systemd                               215-5+b1                    amd64        system and service manager
ii  systemd-sysv                          215-5+b1                    amd64        system and service manager - SysV links
ii  libsystemd0:amd64                     215-5+b1                    amd64        systemd utility library
ii  systemd                               215-5+b1                    amd64        system and service manager
ii  systemd-sysv                          215-5+b1                    amd64        system and service manager - SysV links


Using dracut instead of initramfs-tools does not boot :-(
It's not dracut that complains, but systemd.

localhost systemctl[214]: Failed to switch root. Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to be an OS tree. os-release file is missing.


This what the initrd created by dracut contains:

paeffgen:~# lsinitrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 |grep release
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          193 Oct 27 14:46 etc/initrd-release
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           14 Oct 27 14:46 etc/os-release -> initrd-release

Whereas the initrd created by initramfs-tools does not contain any
os-release file or symlink. 

So, which package is to blame for not booting? dracut or systemd?

-- 
regards Thomas