[Mageia-dev] require help to understand stage1/stage2/rescue source files

Thu Oct 20 19:08:45 CEST 2011

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 17:40, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> Op donderdag 20 oktober 2011 00:26:54 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 21:36, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>> > Hi,
+>> >
+>> > is there someone who can help me understand the stage1/stage2/rescue
+>> > system? or point to some docs? i've looked at it, but it seems to be
+>> > sometimes one source file used for both... it's really confusing me.
+>>
+>> Sources in mdk-stage1/ are used to build several binaries (including
+>> init, stage1 and rescue-gui)
+>>
+>> images/make_boot_img is used to generate the boot images which will
+>> include stage1 and busybox
+>
+> do i need to install busybox rpm before executing this script?
+
+I would suggest that you look at the drakx-installer-images rpm dependencies
+I usually build the rpm
+
+>> rescue/ is used to make rescue.sqfs image which contains a
+>> /etc/rc.sysinit which will prepare things and then run rescue-gui
+>>
+>> At the end stage1, if in rescue mode, the rescue image get loaded
+>> (from local cd, ftp, http, ...), mounted and the code is run (else
+>> same happens to stage2)
+>
+> by any chance, do you know where i can make these rescue menuitems?
+
+Without looking, I would say in rescue-gui.c but I may be wrong
+