Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Overwriting linuxrc

[David Bryson]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:04:51PM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Smith wrote:
> I wanted to use my own linuxrc in the initrd of my livecd (zoinks!)
>
> Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any way to do that in Catalyst;
> shouldn't there be a livecd/linuxrc option available in the Catalyst
> config?
>
>
> I tried to just add a --linuxrc=<filepath> flag to the
> livecd/gk_mainargs option, but of course that won't work because
> genkernel is run from within a chroot to livecd-stage1, where my
> linuxrc, at <filepath>, doesn't exist... so it doesn't work.  Catalyst
> will need to copy that file into the stage1 directory and pass the
> --linuxrc option to genkernel.

I was the one who implemented that patch for genkernel, and I specifically
implemented it for use with catalyst.

You just need to have some process for introducing the linuxrc into
the catalyst chroot during the build process(which is what I did).
The code for doing this is in the embedded build type(which I also
wrote), so you just need to add those bits to the livecd_stageX
module.

Can't wait until rocket makes the code less redundant ;-) then we
won't have these problems.