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fsmithred

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

I was probably root when I ran the installer.

alphalpha

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Registered: 2018-01-23

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

i rewrote the whole sudo part, it is no longer necessary to run this script with sudo (it will ask for a sudo password if needed)
if you are on the root account, and there is a directory in /home that belongs to someone other than root, it will assume that is the correct user

i tested this on daedalus and it spat out a bootable iso,
however the iso will fail to boot properly, during /scripts/init-bottom i get

mount: /root/dev: mount point does not exist

i got similar messages on artix
void works tho

my first thought was that there is something wrong with the initramfs.img but it has the same md5 as when i use fmisthreds refractasnapshot
so it is probably something else, not really sure how i can fix this

Last edited by alphalpha (2025-04-25 16:45:26)

fsmithred

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

What is /root/dev? Why is it trying to mount there?

aitor

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Registered: 2016-12-03

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

What is /root/dev? Why is it trying to mount there?

Have a look at /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init,  you'll find the following lines moving /run and the virtual filesystems /sys and /proc to the real system:

export rootmnt=/root

(...)

# Move /run to the root
mount -n -o move /run ${rootmnt}/run

# We expect udev's init-bottom script to move /dev to ${rootmnt}/dev
run_scripts /scripts/init-bottom

# Move virtual filesystems over to the real filesystem
mount -n -o move /sys ${rootmnt}/sys
mount -n -o move /proc ${rootmnt}/proc

Udev's /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/udev script will move /dev to ${rootmnt}/dev, as its supposed to:

# move the /dev tmpfs to the rootfs
mount -n -o move /dev ${rootmnt}/dev

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alphalpha

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Registered: 2018-01-23

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

okay its working again on devuan
the problem was with the bootloader options

alphalpha

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Registered: 2018-01-23

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Re: α-utilz -- a funky version of refractasnapshot/installer

if anyone cares,
i added some updates over the last months:

• snapshots can now have multiple kernels

• snapshots now have a loopback.cfg

• which is handy for the new multi-usb script that now supporst just drag and drop the iso file and run the updater script to update grub

• the initramfs for devuan is now generated with dracut (as it is for void)

but there is still one thing i would like to add,
and that is for the multi-usb to have a live system with a persistent overlayfs
i thought dracut could help me out here but if i read the scripts correct, it requires systemd for this trick

so i guess my best bet is to just add my own script into the initramfs that checks if "live-overlay.img" file is present on the iso partition of the usb-stick and then mount the overlay and remount root. can anyone help me with this?

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