Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo - by hand - line-by-line - command-by-command?

[Thomas Yao]

You may try Linux From Scratch and try to write the init script
yourself, it's good for self-education

Once you master the LFS you can learn more things interesting and
amazing in gentoo

On 9/27/10, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm curious if there's a way to capture the exact set of command
> that my machine executes as it boots up. I.e. - if I boot the machine,
> letting the boot loader find the kernel but then stopping at a bash
> prompt, before anything much has been done, I'd then like to know what
> set of commands I could use from that bash prompt to make the machine
> do whatever it does normally as it boots up.
>
>    Is that possible, and is it documented anywhere? Or instead of
> capturing commands maybe just a list of things that happen and the
> bash commands I'd use to execute them myself.
>
>    I think the init scripts, at least the ones I've found under
> runlevels, are more generic than I would like to run. I'm looking for
> something more like the portion of the install guide where we chroot
> into the new build, except executing that from the command line of a
> new machine that's booted. I.e.:
>
> mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
> mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
> mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
>
> except modified to start from nothing and bring the machine up from
> scratch. Mount /proc, mount /dev, start udev, check root filesystem,
> etc.
>
>    This is totally for self-education and nothing else really. Just
> curious about how it happens, what order things happen, etc. If anyone
> can recommend a good _basic_ book that talks about this I'd appreciate
> it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>


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