Re: [gentoo-catalyst] root console on boot

[Andrew Gaffney]

lurker wrote:
> On 10/02/09 23:27, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>> lurker wrote:
>>> On 10/02/09 22:28, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>> try grepping the init.d scripts.  or look at the source scripts
>>>> from catalyst itself (iirc, there's a "livecd support" dir or
>>>> some such).
>>> I've recursively grepped every file in /usr/lib/catalyst,
>>> /usr/share/genkernel, /etc and the initrd, and I found nothing.
>>> Have I missed anything (I must have!)?
>> The files you're looking for are part of livecd-tools. There's a
>> function called livecd_fix_inittab() in livecd-functions.sh that
>> rewrites the CD's inittab to call the bashlogin script instead of a
>> login process.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> However, I'm not sure what actually calls the livecd_fix_inittab()
>> function in the first place.
>
> FYI, after some grepping I found from where it is called: /sbin/rc,
> around row 500 (this is with baselayout-1.12.11.1).
>
> I could be off here, but wouldn't it be better if catalyst made these
> changes to /etc/inittab in livecd-stage2 instead?

If you look at the livecd_fix_inittab() function, it makes decisions on what to
write to /etc/inittab based on the /dev nodes that are present.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead