initrd instead of a mix of dietlibc, klibc and static-glibc based
binaries. This works by copying what we need from Glibc into the
initrd and using patchelf to set the ELF interpreter and RPATH
correctly. The resulting initrd is about 500 KB smaller, but more
importantly, it's much easier to maintain - all those
dietlibc/klibc/static-glibc builds frequently cause build problems.
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that the file system driver will replay the journal at
mount-time in case of an unclean shutdown. For ext3 at least
this is *much* faster.
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on my system when booting Linux 2.6.27, ide-generic fails with
"Cannot allocate memory" (maybe because ata_piix already claimed the
IDE devices?).
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the device to mount appears. This wasn't previously possible
because of root devices specified by label (mounted via "mount
LABEL=foo ..."), but now we use /dev/disk/by-label so we can easily
test whether the device already exists.
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use /dev/disk/by-{label,id,...} names for the root FS.
* Kill udevd at the end of stage 1. Don't know how it got killed
previously...
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This makes the initrd a few megabytes smaller.
* Use run-init from klibc to delete everything in the initrd ramfs
prior to switching to the real root FS.
* Removed the stage2Init argument.
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USB, some SCSI controllers) in the initrd for mounting the CD.
* Add nix-hardware-scan to the system.
* Upstart: don't use the -v flag.
* Include the NixOS version in the ISO image filename.
* Include testdisk and ms-sys in the CD.
* Some bugfixes in the installer.
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appear writable (though all writes go to a tmpfs). This allows you
to run Nix operations on the Live CD. However, we're not quite
there yet since the CD doesn't have a valid Nix database. So for
instance a garbage collect will cause everything to be deleted,
hanging the system.
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command line):
- debug1devices: drop into a shell after modules have been load and
device nodes have been created.
- debug1mounts: drop into a shell after file systems have been
mounted.
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a "media" file since SCSI CD-ROM drives don't have it (and
supposedly it's going away in IDE too).
* Create the device node automatically from the "dev" file in
/sys/block/$bla.
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