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 On 9/27/10, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.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 > > -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
