At 2:05 PM +0200 3/31/00, Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Richard Jennings wrote:
>
>> My idea of an embedded application is one in which the system boots
>> directly into my application. No login prompt, no shell. I've seen it
>> mentioned that if my program is named "/bin/init" the kernel will
>> execute it immediately after booting. Can someone tell me more about
>> running in this manner?
>
>You can execute any program in this way. Try to add
>init=/bin/bash
>to your boot (LILO) options (append="init=/bin/bash")
>Tomek
Yes I've done this and I was puzzled by the fact that my keystrokes
were not echoed to the console. All commands were executed as long as
I didn't make any typos ;-)
Booting in this manner is close to what I want to do. If I have built
the Ultimate Internet Toaster using a high level development
environment so my application contains everything I need to operate,
a web server so I can check on my toast from the bathroom, the
ability to send me an email in the shower when the toast is done and
whatever other functionality I want to put into my toaster then I
don't need most of the things that the current small distributions
offer.
Is this the direction that Lineo and Blue Cat will take us? I would
think that this is more in line with traditional embedded systems.
Comments?
Richard
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