[arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

[Calvin Morrison]

On 14 August 2012 18:04, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you. I'm trying to understand which one-time tasks must be performed on
>> initialization, and how. I have no problem with current defaults, but
>> understanding /etc/rc.sysinit requires reading the source of several C files.
>
> Most of these (if not all) C files should come with manpages, which at
> least should give you an idea. I suppose if you want a minimal
> understanding, then most can be ignored. Note that booting with
> init=/bin/bash works just fine, so that's how I would start in order
> to understand the how things work (and then try doing whatever
> rc.sysinit does manually).
>
>> If you happen to remember which version was the last that didn't call a
>> systemd binary, great, otherwise I will start browsing.
>
> The commit that Matthew pointed to is the right one as far as I remember.
>
> -t

wow awesome! I just spend a good 30 minutes playing around with the
init=/bin/bash

I have a new appreciation for the boot masters ;-)