On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:13:46PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Someone mentioned [1]. > > So I tried busybox's init. It works great, my exp. config is at [2]. > > /// > > Also it would be possible to have a startup script (/etc/rcS) like: > > #!/bin/bash > > echo -n "Which init do you want to use? " > read -t 5 a # bash's read has a timeout option > if [ $? -gt 0 ] > then > echo timeout, use normal init > exec /sbin/normal_init <boot args...> > else > echo Switching to init_$a > exec /sbin/init_$a <boot args...> > fi > > /// > > Basically, nothing hinders one to choose init's on the fly, or ?
Wouldn't work: init is PID 1 (init starts /etc/rcS, not the other way around). If you wanted to switch init after boot, you need to have that script in /sbin/init and have all other inits at other paths. > (Well yes, they need different /etc/inittab's, but that is solvable.) > > Regards, > /Karl Hammar > > [1] http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/manjaro_experiments.htm > [2] http://turkos.aspodata.se/computing/busybox_init.txt HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
