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

[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