From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RVkhh-0003VI-Jx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEF8221C0FE; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBA521C0FB for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com ([209.85.214.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RVkfz-001OR3-Nf for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:58:19 +0700 Received: by bkaq10 with SMTP id q10so964237bka.40 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:58:13 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.12.68 with SMTP id w4mr2480442bkw.31.1322661493253; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.96.72 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:58:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:58:13 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 2 From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: e7f03f52-b8cc-4bce-a31e-141345f180d9 X-Archives-Hash: f10471d14544a6d001b4b4b20e2705b4 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:47, wrote: > ----- >8 snip > 3) In the bootloader append line, include "init=3D/sbin/linuxrc" where > =C2=A0 the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... > > #!/sbin/busybox ash > mount -t proc proc /proc > mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys > exec /sbin/init > > =C2=A0 This should be enough for most users. =C2=A0If you have an unusual= setup, > =C2=A0 you may need additional stuff in there. =C2=A0If you're using lilo= remember > =C2=A0 to re-run lilo to implement the changes. > ----- >8 snip BTW, "which busybox" returns /bin/busybox instead of /sbin/busybox In other words, all this time /sbin/linuxrc *didn't* run on my boxen, but the kernel is smart enough to "run with the defaults", whatever that is (I forgot to write down the exact error message in dmesg). After fixing the hashbang line, I can now insert the line "mount -o remount,rw /" at the 2nd line... ... and I no longer have the two red asterisks! Yay!! Rgds, --=20 FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 LOPSA Member #15248 =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan