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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
Posts: 2675
Location: Kiel,Germany
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 Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 12:55 Post subject:
 depmod seems not to follow link
Subject description: Want to store also /lib/modules/`uname -r` on a /boot partition |
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Got me a new HDD and wanted to use a /boot partition not only for GRUB , the kernel and probably an initrd.gz ,
but also to store the drivers on it , to be able to boot any Linux with a kernel and it's drivers without need to have the modules also on every partition , too .
Space is not that problem nowerdays , since the drivers compiled without debugging symbols occupy only 30-100 MB disk space ( FULL Debugging 1GB and more ).
The intention is a smaller menu.lst , where to edit the kernel line from " root=/dev/sdaY " to " root=/dev/sdaX " should be enough in the grub shell .
I tried something like this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to achieve this :
| Code: | ###+++2013-02-28 Support for mounting a boot partition containing the kernel modules
LINKTARGET=`readlink /lib/modules/$(uname -r)`
BOOTPARTITION=`echo "$LINKTARGET" | sed 's#/lib.*##'`
if [ "$BOOTPARTITION" ] ; then
echo "Using a Boot Partition"
BOOTDRIVE=`echo "$BOOTPARTITION" | grep -o -E -e 'hd[a-z][0-9]*|sd[a-z][0-9]*'`
if [ "$BOOTDRIVE" ] ; then
grep -w "$BOOTDRIVE" /proc/partitions || BOOTDRIVE='unknown';fi
if [ "$BOOTDRIVE" != 'unknown' ] ; then
BOOTPARTITION=`echo "$BOOTPARTITION" | sed 's#\(.*/[sh]d[a-z][0-9]*/\).*#\1#'` #need to be like /mnt/sda1/
rm -rf "$BOOTPARTITION"
mkdir -p "$BOOTPARTITION"
mount /dev/$BOOTDRIVE "$BOOTPARTITION"
mount
else
echo "Sorry, could not find '$BOOTDRIVE' in /proc/partitions"
fi;fi
###+++2013-02-28 Support for mounting a boot partition containing the kernel modules
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The outcome is that Busybox depmod and depmod-FULL both don't like to follow an absolute link like
/mnt/sda3/lib/modules/2.6.30.5: symbolic link to `/mnt/sda1/Kernel/Puppy-orig/2.6.30.5'
even if
| Code: | | cd /mnt/sda3 && chroot . && depmod 2.6.30.5 |
At boot time it gave me empty modules.* files first in /mnt/sda1/Kernel/Puppy-orig/2.6.30.5 and later on /mnt/sda1/
Any ideas ?
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amigo
Joined: 02 Apr 2007
Posts: 1757
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| Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 14:44 Post subject:
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You'd have to mount or bind the modules dir into the '/' to make that work.
In other words, /boot would have to be first mounted early in init process, then /lib/modules/`uname -r` would need to be 'bound' to /boot/whattever-dir-name
like this:
mount -o bind /boot/whattever-dir-name /lib/modules/`uname -r`
Remember that this also means that the kernel must contain hard-linked support for whatever filesystem /boot is on.
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
Posts: 2675
Location: Kiel,Germany
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| Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 15:50 Post subject:
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Yup, first experiments seemed to work
ie
| Code: | | mount-FULL --bind /mnt/sda1/Kernel/Puppy-orig/2.6.30.5/ /mnt/sda3/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/ |
and mount output is as
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda3/lib/modules/2.6.30.5 type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
from the outside running OS on sdb2
and depmod worked creating filled files from inside the chroot terminal .
The mounting from inside the chroot terminal did not work until now .
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I guess i need a mountpoint.db file to point to the /mnt/sda1/Kernel/Puppy-orig/2.6.30.5/ directory , since /lib/modules/2.6.30.5 needs to be a directory .
Or transform link to directory and transform back at shutdown , but in case of a hard poweroff that would not work next boot .
Other idea i have would be the zdrv.sfs mounted as loopdevice , but that would likely be read-only and would probably not allow to write new modules.* files ..
Will experiment further . Thanks amigo !
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010
Posts: 2675
Location: Kiel,Germany
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| Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2013, 18:10 Post subject:
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Seems that I got it working with a Linkname as 2.6.30.5-LINK instead a db file so 2.6.30.5 can exist as directory :
| Code: | ###+++2013-02-28 Support for mounting a boot partition containing the kernel modules
LINKTARGET=`readlink /lib/modules/"$(uname -r)"-LINK`
if [ "$LINKTARGET" ] ; then
BOOTPARTITION=`echo "$LINKTARGET" | sed 's#/lib.*##'`
if [ "$BOOTPARTITION" ] ; then
echo "Using a Boot Partition"
BOOTDRIVE=`echo "$BOOTPARTITION" | grep -o -E -e 'hd[a-z][0-9]*|sd[a-z][0-9]*'`
if [ "$BOOTDRIVE" ] ; then
grep -w "$BOOTDRIVE" /proc/partitions || BOOTDRIVE='unknown' #;fi
if [ "$BOOTDRIVE" != 'unknown' ] ; then
BOOTPARTITION=`echo "$BOOTPARTITION" | sed 's#\(.*/[sh]d[a-z][0-9]*/\).*#\1#'` #need to be like /mnt/sda1/
rm -rf "$BOOTPARTITION"
mkdir -p "$BOOTPARTITION"
rm -rf "/lib/modules/`uname -r`"
mkdir -p "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" ; sleep 2s
mount /dev/$BOOTDRIVE "$BOOTPARTITION" ; sleep 2s
mount-FULL --bind "$LINKTARGET" "/lib/modules/`uname -r`" ; sleep 2s
mount
else
echo "Sorry, could not find '$BOOTDRIVE' in /proc/partitions"
fi
else
echo "Got '$BOOTPARTITION' but no BOOTDRIVE '$BOOTDRIVE'"
fi;fi;fi
###+++2013-02-28 Support for mounting a boot partition containing the kernel modules
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The mount shows in /tmp/bootsysinit.log as
| Quote: | /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sda1 on /lib/modules/2.6.30.5 type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) |
depmod ran some seconds now and the usb modules did load ,
so I had been able to finish the keyboard wizard , but missed the country wizard and xorgwizard did not start automatically . But I have had other weird behavior like ( /tmp/bootkernel.log of a kernel on sdb2 plus few /tmp/* files from xwin in /tmp/sda3 ) , all drivers deleted from /boot partition and such funny things before .
rc.sysinit is the only file I have my whole coding with for now , all other scripts should be Macpup Foxy 3 (Pup-4.3) original .
YippiHappy . 
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