[Dragora-bug] Progress on D3 and things to do

[Matias A. Fonzo]

Hello,

A few days ago sysvinit was added on the devel branch along with perp.
Sysvinit serves as the process number 1, while perp will serves for any
long-running program, normally to start at system boot and continue
running until system shutdown, monitoring any provided `service'. Right
now I am close to completing the basic and essential scripts to start
and stop the system for sysvinit. Also doing some testings with perp.
(Far from what I can say, the result seems to be a simple and powerful
combination.).

This step is necessary if we want to have a system that boots, as part
of it, it is necessary to complete some things (if someone is
interested) it is possible to discuss it. Here some things to do:

- Boot loader

We need to include a boot loader with UEFI support, present in
newer machines. Can be: syslinux, (e)lilo, grub, gujin, or ...

- Live CD

The motivation of this is to have a running system with all the
applications available. The installation would be optional, at this
point we need also write the installer in the live cd mode - adapt the
installer of Dragora 2, or write a new one.

If anyone has experience making live CDs...

- Initram generator and kernel image

Of course, a pre-configured kernel image is required. The idea is to
provide a generic image with the flexibility of an initrd[1]. The
problem is that we don't have a tool to do that. We can create a new
one (that is not precisely the wished thing), or we can take a look for
an existing implementation. Maybe dracut[2]?.

Sorry for the misspellings.

References:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd
[2] http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Any help, idea, opinion or suggestion is appreciated.


Thanks,
Matias