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initrd burned on CD consists of following directories;
bin dev etc lib linuxrc lost+found mnt proc sbin sys
linuxrc script
Code:
!/bin/sh
# ID is a file in root of the LFS boot CD, used to identify the CD.
ID="livecd"
TMP_MOUNT="/mnt"
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
CHECK_TYPE="try_mount"
# MOUNT KERNEL FILESYSTEMS
# Create the proc directory if it does not exist
if [ ! -d "/proc/" ]; then
mkdir /proc
fi
# Mount the proc filesystem
mount -n proc /proc -t proc
# If sysfs is listed as a valid filesystem type in /proc
# then mount it (if it doesnt then udev wont work
# and you wont have the devices you need)
if grep -q '[[:space:]]sysfs' /proc/filesystems; then
if [ ! -d /sys/block ]; then
mount -n sysfs /sys -t sysfs
fi
fi
# Create some things that sysfs does not, and should not export for us. Feel
# free to add devices to this list.
make_extra_nodes() {
ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin
ln -s /proc/self/fd/1 /dev/stdout
ln -s /proc/self/fd/2 /dev/stderr
ln -s /proc/kcore /dev/core
mkdir /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
}
if [ ! -x /sbin/hotplug ]; then
echo /sbin/udev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
fi
# Mount a temporary file system over /dev, so that any devices
# made or removed during this boot don't affect the next one.
# The reason we don't write to mtab is because we don't ever
# want /dev to be unavailable (such as by `umount -a').
mount -n ramfs /dev -t ramfs
/sbin/udevstart
make_extra_nodes
# Detecting the live CD is pretty complicated,
# but is a very logical process
# Search for cdrom devices and add them to CDROM_LIST
CDROM_LIST=""
# Search in proc tree for ide cdrom devices
# There used to be a section for devfs, but this was
# edited for udev. Actually we should probably not
# use /proc anymore, but use sysfs instead...
# Perhaps in the future;)
# Check for ide channels.
for ide_channel in /proc/ide/ide[0-9]
do
# If there are no ide channels found, then skip this
if [ ! -d "$ide_channel" ]; then
break
fi
# Try each ide device to see if we can find the cd-rom drive
for ide_device in hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh hdi hdj hdk hdl hdm hdn
do
device_media_file="$ide_channel/$ide_device/media"
if [ -e "$device_media_file" ]; then
grep -i "cdrom" $device_media_file > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
CDROM_LIST="$CDROM_LIST /dev/$ide_device"
fi
fi
done
done
# Check for scsi cds
for scsi_cdrom in /dev/scd[0-99]
do
if [ -e "$scsi_cdrom" ]; then
CDROM_LIST="$CDROM_LIST $scsi_cdrom"
fi
done
# Now we try to find the LFS boot CD (we use ID as identification)
LFS_CDROM_DEVICE=""
for cdrom_device in $CDROM_LIST
do
if [ "$CHECK_TYPE" = "try_mount" ]; then
mount -n -t iso9660 ${cdrom_device} $TMP_MOUNT
# > /dev/null 2>&1
media_found=$?
fi
if [ $media_found -eq 0 ]; then
echo -n "media found"
if [ "$CHECK_TYPE" = "try_mount" ]; then
[ -e "$TMP_MOUNT/$ID" ]
media_lfs=$?
fi
if [ "$CHECK_TYPE" = "try_mount" ]; then
umount -n $cdrom_device > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
if [ $media_lfs -eq 0 ]; then
echo ", LFS boot CD found. Ready!"
LFS_CDROM_DEVICE="$cdrom_device"
break;
else
echo ", not LFS boot CD."
fi
else
echo "no media "
fi
done
# Mount LFS CD as / (root fs)
if [ "$LFS_CDROM_DEVICE" = "" ]; then
echo "No LFS boot CD found!!!"
exit 1
else
echo "Booting from $LFS_CDROM_DEVICE..."
# This is the magical part that makes a live CD live!
# The cd is mounted and pivot_root+chroot commands
# are used to start the system.
# If you really want to know what is going on here,
# You should read the chroot and pivot_root man pages
mount -n -o ro -t iso9660 $LFS_CDROM_DEVICE $TMP_MOUNT
cd $TMP_MOUNT
pivot_root . mnt
umount -n /mnt/proc >/dev/null 2>&1
exec chroot . sh -c 'umount -n /mnt >/dev/null 2>&1;
exec -a init.new /sbin/init 3' <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1
fi
EOF
Whenever after executing "pivot_root . mnt", "chroot" can't be found. The script exits with following warning
Code:
/linuxrc : line 164 : exec chroot : not found ......
The chroot command is on /bin together with pivot_root;
# ls -l /mount_point/bin/
Code:
total 887
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 00:33 [ -> test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 573171 Aug 5 18:57 bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17497 Aug 5 18:57 chroot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18537 Aug 5 18:57 echo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83722 Aug 5 18:57 grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29317 Aug 5 18:57 ln
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26419 Aug 5 18:57 mkdir
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 64768 Aug 5 18:57 mount
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3092 Aug 5 18:57 pivot_root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 30 00:33 sh -> bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27389 Aug 5 18:57 test
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 33812 Aug 5 18:57 umount
If comment out the line "pivot_root . mnt" then the script continues to run. Please advise how to solve this problem. TIA
Furthermore how to test the initrd environment operated on the existing/running system without rebooting, with following command;
# chroot /mnt /linuxrc
together with pivot_root in such a chroot'ed initrd environment ? and how?
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