Re: [rtl] Re: QNX style sysinit

[Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Robert Findlay wrote:

> We are currently struggling through Linux's convoluted startup and shutdown
> sequencing for one of our embedded RTLinux projects.
> 
> We long for something like exists in the QNX OS.  There all the startup
> info is contained in a single script.  While this maybe less flexible than
> the current Linux scheme, it is much better suited to an embedded system.

It is very easy to have it in Linux. Just look into /etc/inittab, comment out
all runlevels, leave only sysinit. Or even get rid of init, boot the system
with option (LILO or any other boot loader)  init=/bin/sh   
or whatever program you want to start.


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