sup malina: do you mount move devpts?

malina: should talk more in here

erm no I dont\ move mount?

what do you mean?

like what i the issue you are working on?

writing an initramfs

Iin my init in the begiing i remeber it was like

a bit awakwartd figuyring out the tmpfs systems

ive switched to system-v

i kinda did a bit just , (and i reocmmend this) just go with it

solve it until you feel it's "ok even if hacky

using the grub-mkrescue

and before yo know it, the system is just booting fooking amazingly

sure it won't be popular if you spread it (never was my purpose)

but for your opwn systems

my systems worked 100%

and no worry of 'users moaning'

how you like my hacky... github.com/zedmatrix/Bash_Scripts/tree/main/Initramfs

but it neevr went wrong.. but ye.. it kinfda is a fight between init and kernel

thats old

so when you boot you _create the squashfs_?

but getting the init is one thing

from where?

the squashfs is already made

its mounting the squash to image.squashfs ramdisk

ye ok

this is the issue.... bpa.st/PMDQ

malina: this is the newest version > github.com/zedmatrix/Bash_Scripts/blob/main/Initramfs/init.sh

nsITobin: maybe initramfs/lib/firmware should be populated

cause live booting my laptop just stops at drm amdgpu

aktghough I dont think it was a success, I tried merging drm from libdrm and nvidias?

or what iut was

but ye, dont think it was a success

i think i need to populate usr/lib/firmware

zedmatrix: you loading firmware in the squash or in initrd?

going to try the squashfs since after it switches root is where its failing

zedmatrix: is it wise to have overlay and loop as kernel modules then switchroot?

no i built overlay and loop into the kernel

i just forgot to add hfs,hfsplus

hmm that increased to 1.8G

hmm it booted the hp pavilion laptop

nsITobin: it adds 1.6G to the squashfs

does it solve it?

zedmatrix: how large is your rootfs before sqashing it?

and do you really need ALL that firmware?

see if you can boot... ln5.sync.com/4.0/dl/b6e0c5a40#c7jgvs37-9ndcbtm4-y3bm3baf-9dacvx8f

one of my laptops had a nvidiafb stop

cause of the size i went with the low memory, non ramdisk

but it does boot from usb now.... qemu+hp pav tested

sucks you had to include udev

not entirely sure why I need udev

makes it easier to populate the filesystem, other than that it gets messy

cause then i would haveto manually create all device nodes

but i might try adding a firmware.img

zedmatrix: just see about compressing each blob

fedora xz compresses theirs .. the firmware makefile by default gz compresses it for the dist target

or no..

install-xz target in makefile

tthere we go

no git required

that should cut down on the space

so make install-xz with a dest dir should do the trick

sometimes individual file compression does better than compressing the whole thing

i think haveto do a cpio image with /lib/firmware/* so that is available before the init starts

which init

sysv?

i bet this is a blob> '/boot/gentoo.igz'

no the initramfs/init

honestly i dunno where firmware needs to be

i think it should be passed from grub so that the kernel can load it before that init pass over

ok initrd does contain firmware but typically not all of it

unless i am wrong

no i think you prettyy much need firmware in both initrd and the final rootfs

fedora livecds seem to include it in both

and yeah a loop likely won't work

hmm xz gets it to 539M, i guess if i trim out some blobs

whats funny is on the hp laptop the ethernet was eno1

there is also zstd but zstd pisses me off.. like they are the standard for everything Z.. I am sure you have something to say about it zedmatrix

did you see i changed the timeout to 30 ?

i haven't tried to boot hardware yet but i will boot vmware.. i was poking the files

zedmatrix: then i will send it to the you ess bee

k?

good in the vmware

yea qemu too

down to 1693577216 Jun 11 20:06 lfslive.iso

how much ram you got in your normal com-Puter

1.6G

my qemu i use 4G

the Hp has 8G

still dunno why it maps to hfs+

is that the file format when you create the loop device?

filesystem*

its how grub-mkrescue/xorriso is creating

its how grub-mkrescue/xorriso is creating

its how grub-mkrescue/xorriso is creating

you said that

sorry i am tired

no worry

i have been up for .. hours

me too

0530 it is 2209 now

630 am and 810p

ok burning the new image 1.6gb to usb using the firmware.img

be back

i wonder if i am gonna burn out this usb

yeah it worked

and then when i rebooted i found the god damned firmware screwed up my graphics card monitor detection.. my fourth monitor uses a dvi on the monitor side to dp.. changes in firmware fuck it up requiring me to go into Windows and get it to detect again then it is happy.. it is one of those quirks that seems to ONLY happen to me and is why I am so damned particular about my software..

anyway that is what took me so long

also because of that issue my fourth monitor became 640x480 which means ALL my monitors were 640x480 but because of the stupid framebuffer bs it was only zoomed on the incorrectly detected monitor and tiny corner only on everything else

which is why for my PERSONAL use i build amdgpu in

and control it with kernel args

but again tthat is specific to me

nothing YOU did was an issue

just.. the state of things

i am having trouble booting in qemu with the firmware blob, ok kernel panic now, it just took time to decompress the blob

assuming i go to the store tomorrow after that I will see about creating something bootable of my own

but i think i am several steps behind you still

something with that firmware.img blob, maybe i can strip it down to just intel/ amd/ nvidia/ ?

i don't think it will work

ok decompressing blob

booted initrd /initrd.img /firmware.img

it activated the gtk window

still goes to userspace, then 2 nvidiafb crtc0,1

gonna lay down now good night

building a live iso takes alot of tweaking

you know zedmatrix .. i am gonna just stop spilling my plans out to the world cause every time i do something happens to interfear

figured go to the store be gone a few hours then back but it was a whole ordeal

lol

i can only figure it is because I deemed my intended actions..

so i figure maybe if I don't say then the universe won't overhear LOL

Catch the universe off gaurd.. That's the ticket!

in all seriousness sup

nsITobin: rebuilding some linux, using 6.6.93 lts and gonna try trimming the firmware blob too

just squashing the new modules

zedmatrix: god i wish the kernel could loop mount a wim image it would basically complete wimlib-imagex's full equivalance of the windows version..

fuse is too small

but if i could get a wim support in the kernel.. well that could be fun..

small.. i mean slow

but if you try that iso again add 'nomodeset' to the grub commandline

yeah I am gonna have to do nomodeset to not have it piss with my gfx card

its probably the nvidiafb causing issues

i use amdgpu

but every time it changes it makes my shitty dvi to dp cable not detect

thus fucking up my hardset monitor stuff on kernel cmdline and in x11

because the entire system is stupid and won't let me at cmdline set the damned monitor resolutions properly .. or just disable some or not

this is what I have to do to make my monitors work properly

because smallest resolution wins

and it doesn't stretch

so it double sucks

yea thats y linux from scratch is easier :)

nsITobin: if you want to try the new iso ... ln5.sync.com/4.0/dl/eaf0754e0#c8rnp7gj-3bkifx8f-dt83yk6h-bj67hhx9

why 6.6?

zedmatrix: shutting down falls to system matainace shell

when doing shutdown now

stopping system log daemon

enter root password for system maintanance

if i ctrl+d it logs back in as root

but sysvinit is shutdown

zedmatrix: but i know reboot worked on hardware

so i dunno

why the why

hmm i just did a quick test in vm it looked ok

just type shutdown now

it falls to emerg shell

i will write it to a flash drive

after this vidya

hmm i never use shutdow

its usually, poweroff or reboot :)

how do i restart linux?

all i can find is reboot

but i need to restart it

a related question.. i need to know if i should logoff or logout first

zedmatrix:

i do know i hate "signin signout/off

"

because that implies asking permission.. while logging in or on.. implies I am allowed .. also logged as such.

language shifts thought and expression and i do NOT like the progression from login to sign in