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

[Maarten Vanraes]

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?

> 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?