Re: yaboot init=/linuxrc

[Fabian Hänsel <fabtagon@gmx.de>]

Mike Power wrote:

> Nope.  First I only have /bin/sh on my initrd, but init=/bin/sh should 
> produce similar results.  In this case it didn't run the shell but ran 
> my /linuxrc instead.

Ok, we see there's a problem passing this argument to the kernel, the 
kernel isn't using a wrong ID for his init or something like that. So 
what does 'cat /proc/cmdline' say?

btw: If /linuxrc isn't called as init, but as another regular process, 
/linuxrc must have been called by /sbin/init - this sounds like a bug in 
your init startup config (because there is no useful reason for 
/sbin/init to call another programm, that is made to be an init tool, too).

Greetings,
  Fabian

> Fabian Hänsel wrote:
>
>> Mike Power wrote:
>>
>>> I am having trouble doing some custom boot steps before init runs.  
>>> I have a script /linuxrc that needs to be executed as pid 1 so that 
>>> it can turn around and call init when it is done.  I followed the 
>>> directions to do this using the grub boot loader.  In those 
>>> directions the option init=/linuxrc is passed to the kernel
>>
>>
>> If your yaboot.conf is right: Does init=/bin/bash work as expected?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>  Fabian
>