Mathieu Othacehe writes:

Hi Mathieu,

> Having an RC argument passed directly by the bootloader seems like a
> good way to proceed for me. This is somehow remotely similar to what we
> are doing with the "initrd" on Linux (pointing to some piece of code
> that needs to be loaded before starting the init process).
>
> You would also need to store this RC argument in the <boot-parameters>
> record, by adding a new field or stuffing it in the "initrd"
> field. Then, we wouldn't need an extra service I guess.

Hmm...I don't understand...probably I'm missing something.

I was thinking to just extend boot-parameters with
--rc-file=%hurd-rc-script, and then add %hurd-rc-script to the SYSTEM
service...How would I get the RC script into SYSTEM without a service?

Anyway...see working prototype attached!  To get rid of the extra sevice
that I added I'd need some help.  Please feel free to just rework it if
you like!

> If we are going that way, the procedures in (gnu build hurd-boot) could
> be passed the "hurd" package to install, and we could maybe get rig of
> the "/hurd" symlink?

Hehe, that would be nice...but IME /hurd isn't easy to get rid of.  The
Hurd code uses it "everywhere" and I seem to remember that a simple
substitute* on the Hurd archive was not enough...sadly I do not remember
the details, so maybe...

Greetings,
Janneke