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

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Yao <t.yao426@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I was just looking at LFS in another tab.
Thanks!



> 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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