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

Thu Oct 20 21:12:55 CEST 2011

Op donderdag 20 oktober 2011 19:08:45 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+> 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
+
+thanks alot for the assistance!
+