Comments on: Few problems that you may encounter when booting Linux

By: Jaroslaw Kubik

Jaroslaw Kubik — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:17:58 +0000

I already know this init=/bin/bash trick – I was experimenting with it a while ago, and I was wondering how is the init process different from any other. I tried following approach: boot with init=/bin/bash -> do what needs to be done to system -> call exec /bin/init to run system as it normally would. This however caused only some error message to pop-up. How init knows that I am trying to trick it , and it’s not being run directly from kernel?

By: Charlene Mendez

Charlene Mendez — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:30:20 +0000

interesting. myself I have just found this cool CD for booting and repairing Windows at windowsbootcd.com, trying it out right now

By: Andre Goddard Rosa

Andre Goddard Rosa — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:33:07 +0000

Really nice article again!

I’d like to complement saying that one of the main motivations for having initrd is to allow distributions shipping very simple kernels (with generic part that everybody needs) and adding more features (modules to load etc.) dynamically, after hardware probe during distribution installation.

By: Alexander Sandler

Alexander Sandler — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:43:14 +0000

@Directory
Thanks Jay. Please visit again for even more informative articles.

By: Directory

Directory — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:38:46 +0000

Very informative article, which I found quite useful. Cheers ,Jay