Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Guy Martin <gmsoft@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-releng] initrd linuxrc feature request
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:23:05
Message-Id: 20040326151659.172a1b2b.gmsoft@gentoo.org
1 Hello all,
2
3 This little patch would be great to the linuxrc script in initrd.
4 It allow every livecd to be dd'ed on a harddrive and then booted from
5 it. I dunno if it would work for other arches due to the boot loader but
6 at least it works for hppa.
7
8
9
10 b180l root # diff -u linuxrc.orig linuxrc
11 --- linuxrc.orig 2004-03-26 14:17:52.000000000 +0000
12 +++ linuxrc 2004-03-26 14:18:53.000000000 +0000
13 @@ -89,6 +89,11 @@
14 findcdmount /newroot/dev/ide/cd/*
15 fi
16
17 + if [ "${REAL_ROOT}" = "" ]
18 + then
19 + findcdmount /newroot/dev/discs/*/discs
20 + fi
21 +
22
23 if [ "${REAL_ROOT}" = "" ]
24 then
25
26
27 --
28 Guy Martin
29 Gentoo Linux - HPPA port Lead / IPv6 team
30 Lug Charleroi (Belgium)