Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: lurker <lurker@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] root console on boot
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:13:36
Message-Id: 49920A17.5010601@lavabit.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] root console on boot by Andrew Gaffney
1 On 10/02/09 23:27, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > lurker wrote:
3 >> On 10/02/09 22:28, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> try grepping the init.d scripts. or look at the source scripts
5 >>> from catalyst itself (iirc, there's a "livecd support" dir or
6 >>> some such).
7 >>
8 >> I've recursively grepped every file in /usr/lib/catalyst,
9 >> /usr/share/genkernel, /etc and the initrd, and I found nothing.
10 >> Have I missed anything (I must have!)?
11 >
12 > The files you're looking for are part of livecd-tools. There's a
13 > function called livecd_fix_inittab() in livecd-functions.sh that
14 > rewrites the CD's inittab to call the bashlogin script instead of a
15 > login process.
16
17 Thanks a lot!
18
19 > However, I'm not sure what actually calls the livecd_fix_inittab()
20 > function in the first place.
21
22 FYI, after some grepping I found from where it is called: /sbin/rc,
23 around row 500 (this is with baselayout-1.12.11.1).
24
25 I could be off here, but wouldn't it be better if catalyst made these
26 changes to /etc/inittab in livecd-stage2 instead?

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] root console on boot Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>