Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I wrote: > ] I'm confused as to the start-up sequence of the Rescue disk... > ] ldlinux loads "root.bin" and "linux", then passes execution to "linux", > ] with the specified boot-time parameters. The kernel uncompresses itself > ] and initializes the drivers etc. It then uncompresses "root.bin" and > ] mounts it as root, and executes "/linuxrc". This scripts execs > ] "/sbin/init". What happens after this? > > "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ] After this init reads /etc/inittab runs and starts processes depending > ] on the run level. > > Normally this is the case, but the rootdisk image contained on the > Rescue disk has no /etc/inittab... There's an /etc/init_tab which later > gets used for the /etc/inittab on the newly-installed system, but i dont > think it gets read when booting off the Rescue disk. > > Does anyone know how /Install/dinstall gets run? > > Sebastian Kuzminsky > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Well, if init is run in single user mode then it will start a shell on the console. Perhaps you should look for a .profile which does the subsequent work. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
