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An afternoon of fun hacks, booting Debian
Step one: building OpenRC, and force it with a big hammer to replace sysv-rc.
A few minutes later, with even more hacks, we have a more decent boot process which uses Gentoo boot scripts (amazingly, most of them do work out of the box!):
Notice the udev script, which is hacked from the Debian sysv-rc, still has the color scheme of Debian, while the other scripts are just drop-ins from Gentoo.
Of course, this is only a big hack to have the above. There is only so much you can do in a 4 hours hacking session. It will need more serious work to make it a viable solution (like finding a way to upgrade smoothly and allow the first reboot to shutdown processes which aren’t running using cgroup, converting existing init scripts automatically, hooking into update-rc.d, etc.). Though the proof of concept is there: the “rc-status” command works, we have cgroups working, and so on.
Thanks to Patrick Lauer for spending with me this fun afternoon, hacking OpenRC in SID.
This entry was written by Goirand Thomas , posted on March 30, 2013 at 1:56 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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