Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] adding binaries to initial boot process

[John D. <jd...@cp...>]

Further information....I'm still having problems executing these commands.
 I successfully have the files available during the iso boot, but they won't
execute.

What I keep ending up with is this:

/init: line 348: /sbin/mkfs.ext2: not found

But if I include commands before the mkfs.ext2 like "which mkfs.ext2" it
prints out /sbin/mkfs.ext2.  And if I do a "ls -l /sbin" I see my files
there with the execute bit set on.

Both mkfs.ext2 and sfdisk give this same error, yet both appear to be
available from the output from the "ls -l /sbin" command

All this is done from the linuxrc file, not from later scripts.

I'm sure I'm missing something important here.

-John

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Dailey <jd...@cp...> wrote:

> OK, I may be answering my own question here -- hopefully someone can stop
> me if I'm going down the wrong track.
>
> Browsing through the code, it looks like the initrdtree is built piecemeal
> by the install make target of all the various packages.  So I altered the
> scripts ~/scripts/e2fsprogs and ~/scripts/util-linux and did a manual cp to
> $INITRDDIR at the end of the install block.
>
> I'm hoping this is a sensible way of doing this.
>
> -John
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, John Dailey <jd...@cp...> wrote:
>
>> Hello,  I'm practicing customizing devil-linux, and am not quite sure how
>> to continue:
>>
>> I'm wanting to alter the boot-up procedure to auto format a local hard
>> drive in a certain way automatically during boot, then use one of the
>> partitions as the configuration store.  I've found how to edit
>> ~/config/etc/initrd/linuxrc, and clear the build flag at
>> ~/tmp/FLAGS/install/create-etc.  I'm successfully rebuilding the iso file,
>> and my changes are reflected during the new boot.
>>
>> The problem is that during the boot process, I don't have access to two
>> utilities I need: sfdisk, and mkfs.ext2.
>>
>> What is the 'correct' way to get those binaries to find their way into a
>> place accessible during boot.  Am I wanting to see them show up in
>> ~/tmp/ISO/initrdtree/bin?  Where do I make a change to have them show up
>> there?
>>
>> Also, if anyone thinks I'm going to run into some dependency problems with
>> those binaries, other suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Thank you for any help you can provide.
>>
>> -John Dailey
>>
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