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
