On 11/21/2014 15:19, David L. Craig wrote:
I'd be happy to capture any data you think would be helpful to help make the installer more robust. I can use my Sid system if you'll give me the procedure to modify and rebuild the ISO--that's something I'd actually like to learn about.
Dave, Nothing specific I had in mind but if you find anything indicating why the devices take so long to appear then please share. As far as disassembling and reassembling the initramfs, you can do it like so: $ mkdir work; cd work $ cpio -idmv < /path/to/initramfs That will extract the initramfs to the "work" dir. You'll see bin, dev, init, lib, proc, and sys there. "init" is the init script, you can edit it to add whatever break points or output you like, just keep in mind that what it has access to is defined by the included busybox. If you want to build a more featureful busybox for debugging you can replace the one in the initramfs. To reassemble it after making changes: $ cd work $ find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initramfs.new Then initramfs.new is your new initramfs image for testing. Hope that helps. Matt