[Bastian Blank] > Why do you not extend the current setup to do another step? > Currently we have two > - in the initramfs with only minimal information and > - during the rcS run with / available.
Eh, currently we have 5 sections during the boot: - initramfs with minimal set of files available. - rcS with only / available read-only (before checkroot.sh) - rcS with / read-write, /var/ and /usr/ might be missing (after checkroot.sh) - rcS with / and /var/ read-write (after mountall.sh) - rcS with /, /var/ and /usr/ read-write (after mountnfs.sh) Everything running during boot need to know which section it is running it, and avoid using tools and files only guaranteed to be available in later sections. In addition, there is an optional section split when udev is installed after / is read-only and before it is read-write, which is before and after devices in /dev/ are available. In runlevels 2-5 local and NFS file systems are available, so scripts running from there can be a less carefyl Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
