Re: [gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init]
On 05/28/2013 01:45 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Out of sheer curiosity... is bb-init based on busybox? If so, a it IS busybox =) separate partition would also prevent standard utilities from stomping all over their busybox symlink equivalants. Add another entry to the grub/lilo menu, and boot from that. You don't need symlinks, you have a startscript that runs busybox ash, then it will use all its applets, init included. This way about all the openrc shell scripts is executed by the same interpreter and sed/grep and such are just function calls and not slightly more pricy fork+exec. Doing this way you get a quite fast boot and depending on your needs you can leverage more busybox applets to replace even more programs (e.g. dhcpcd). That would be the theoretical fastest boot possible short of integrating start-stop-daemon in busybox. lu
[gentoo-dev] Separate boot/root already [WAS: eselect init]
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:47:49AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote Yes, I tested it first and got the whole system unworkable, one single mode later I baked something to get at least the minimal functionality, supporting our xdm script properly required some more effort I hadn't time to pour that day. People who want to try something different in distros, without irrevocably switching over, normally have a separate partition. This is beginning to look like the simplest, least error-prone approach, even if it is heavy-ganded. Out of sheer curiosity... is bb-init based on busybox? If so, a separate partition would also prevent standard utilities from stomping all over their busybox symlink equivalants. Add another entry to the grub/lilo menu, and boot from that. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
