On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Yao <t.yao...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
I was just looking at LFS in another tab. Thanks! > 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 > >
