Making FirstRib bootable with own initramfs

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wiak · #1 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 00:26

Whilst there may probably still be some useful general info in this thread, for the most part it is now outdated.

In practice this thread is no longer being added to since it proved more sensible to put all FirstRib development into thread:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=116212.

wiak

wiak · #2 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 00:27

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wiak · #3 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 00:27

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wiak · #4 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 00:27

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wiak · #5 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 00:27

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wiak · #6 Post by **wiak** » Sat 15 Jun 2019, 11:36

wiak · #7 Post by **wiak** » Mon 17 Jun 2019, 11:53

#8 Post by **rockedge** » Mon 17 Jun 2019, 12:17

I used the first script and the resulting initramfs.gz did complete successfully and it almost finished booting!. I ran the script on a FirstRib set up that worked well as a chrooted OS using Xnest . The boot went all the way to "booting kernel" and stayed there.

I will go ahead and work with script #2 and try again with the fully loaded FirstRib and if it fails again I will use a freshly built system to run the script on.
I am using the vmlinuz from a stock Bionic32 and have not yet attempted it in 64 bit...which I will do later.
It is just easier to break the 32 bit system over and over on my mental health.

Also the boot process was long since the created initramfs is 671 megs large.

#9 Post by **rockedge** » Mon 17 Jun 2019, 15:36

It booted and ran....and a 28 meg initramfs.gz

I repeated the experiment with a freshly built FirstRib and a initramfs.gz was produced and using Grub4Dos and next to 20 other Puppy Linux installs, booted and functioned in a simple form. If I can the eth0 to be recognize and actually get some connectivity it would be fun to see how it works and add some X server stuff.

wiak · #10 Post by **wiak** » Mon 17 Jun 2019, 21:45

#11 Post by **rockedge** » Mon 17 Jun 2019, 22:57

hello wiak,

yes the FirstRib built straight from the second script worked quickly produced a 28 meg initramfs.gz and booted up really fast. it worked in it's limited form really well.

the other version I built FirstRib-big using the same procedure as above but then added all the goodies with base-system, rox, jwm ,geany,firefox. With this firstrib_rootfs ran the script and built the initramfs.gz which weighs in at 651 megs. I was excited that it began to boot...took more than a few minutes but hung right at the "booting kernel" message.

so I tried a simpler version which produced a 213 meg initramfs.gz....it contained Xorg server and rox xterm base-minimal...it also booted successfully but errors prevented anything other than the basics from working.

all the above work great using the host X or Xnest and the mount and unmount scripts

wiak · #12 Post by **wiak** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 09:04

wiak · #13 Post by **wiak** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 10:05

wiak · #14 Post by **wiak** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 12:18

wiak · #15 Post by **wiak** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 12:34

#16 Post by **rockedge** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 14:43

very interesting stuff.....I am about to run the latest scripts and work some with what I have set up and running.

I am continuing to use the BIonic64-v8 for these experiments

also a 32 bit system is running what has been created

64 bit machine has 8 gigs RAM and the 32 bit has 4 gigs of RAM

wiak · #17 Post by **wiak** » Tue 18 Jun 2019, 20:11

wiak · #18 Post by **wiak** » Wed 19 Jun 2019, 01:07

wiak · #19 Post by **wiak** » Wed 19 Jun 2019, 12:34

sc0ttman · #20 Post by **sc0ttman** » Wed 19 Jun 2019, 12:58

Hi wiak,

if you are good with wpa_supplicant, and want a non X way to setup wifi for users, this post may be of interest to you:

ncurses wifi tools:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 68#1030568

I kinda got them working in Puppy, but they need a little love..

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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Making FirstRib bootable with own initramfs

Making FirstRib bootable with own initramfs

model00 script (simple; provided for understanding only)

A very simple initramfs that doesn't do much...

initramfs.gz for booting firstrib now with save persistence