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%% Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> writes: |
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>> I quite understand your position: you are using ostensibly stable |
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>> Gentoo packages and your work is focused on making sure Catalyst |
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>> works. I'm using unstable/development packages and assuming that |
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>> Catalyst is stable. |
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cg> Catalyst is anything but stable. It works quite well for building |
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cg> a *Gentoo* release, but is not well suited for other things (yet) |
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cg> simply due to that being the only focus of catalyst until |
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cg> recently. |
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:-) Yes, understood. |
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>> My current project is understanding where the kernel boot parameters |
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>> come from (my bootline has "nodhcp" which I don't want). My other |
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>> problem is that the hardware detection stuff is running too late in the |
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>> "default" boot process; it brings up eth0, then sshd, then apache, |
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>> _THEN_ runs the hardware detection. So, I can't quite figure out how it |
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>> brings up eth0 without detecting the hardware... maybe it runs twice? |
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cg> All of the boot parameters come from the archscript. |
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I found this now. |
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cg> Normally, autoconfig is started first due to it being first |
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cg> alphabetically. |
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Oops. That's not terribly robust :-). I'm adding "apache2" and that |
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comes before "autoconfig". Not sure why SSH is starting earlier, but |
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apache2 depends on "net" and presumably (although there isn't a "net" |
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runscript) that somehow translates into net.eth0 etc. |
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cg> The "hwsetup" portion you see on the Gentoo releases is done by |
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cg> autoconfig, and runs before coldplug. |
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Hm. In my version of autoconfig this seems to be commented out: |
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depend() { |
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need modules |
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use alsasound |
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# provide gpm pcmcia apmd acpid coldplug |
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} |
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Maybe that's my problem? I'm getting this from livecd-tools-1.0.20. |
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I don't see anything depending on coldplug either. |
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It sure would be nice if the rc scripts tools had some debugging |
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capabilities, like a "don't do it" mode that just printed what would be |
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run for a given runlevel or init script, and why. It would make this |
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stuff a lot simpler... |
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It seems like basic things like "net" should depend on coldplug and/or |
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autoconfig. |
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cg> Just curious, but what arch are you building? x86? amd64? ppc? |
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x86 |
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Paul D. Smith <psmith@××××××.com> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools |
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