I am trying to run a script just before the installation of Debian Wheezy finishes. I am aware of "d-i preseed/late-command", viz. used run commands before the installation finishes. But I am facin...

I'm stuck in initramfs on Linux Mint v15 and I need to edit /bin/grub/grub/cfg. I have the sda1 device mounted but not sure what to do to edit. I try exec ./usr/bin/vi and it throws a kernel panic....

As I understand, initrd is a small image that is loadable in the RAM. It is used to boot a complete kernel with all the loadable modules. As part of the process, we need the vmlinuz kernel im...

I am looking for a method to restart/reset my linux system from within an init-bottom script*. At the time my script is executed the system is found under /root and I have access to a busybox. But...

Background: I'm developing a DKMS package for my kernel module. The DKMS manpage contains the following sentence: REMAKE_INITRD = This directive specifies whether your initrd should be remade a...

Consider a live GNU/Linux distro with the following constraints: all the software should be contained in an initrd image (which results in its huge size) and the kernel contains as few statically-c...

[Environment: Ubuntu 10.04] I've just finished compiling Linux-2.6.20 and wanna make it work, so I think I should add something to my grub2, as I finished make modules_install make install in ...

We develop for a specific embedded device at our company, and part of that is making initial root disks that get loaded onto the devices over ethernet via netboot. We've experienced some problems, ...