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66-boot

66-boot is a program that is meant to run as pid 1, as a stage1 init: it performs the necessary early system preparation and execs into 66-scandir.

Interface

	66-boot [ -h ] [ -s skel ] [ -m ] [ -l log_user ] [ -e environment ] [ -d dev ] [ -b banner ]
	

it performs some early preparation, spawns a process that will run the rc.init script, then execs into 66-scandir.

Options

Early preparation

When booting a system, 66-boot performs the following operations:

If one of the above processus fail, 66-boot try to launch a Single-user login a.k.a. sulogin which let you the ability to fix the error. This case should not arrive.

Exit codes

66-boot never exits. It spawns the rc.init script and execs into 66-scandir, which runs forever until the machine stops or reboots.

Skeleton files

Skeleton files are mandatories and must exist on your system to be able to boot and shutdown the machine properly. By default those files are installed at /etc/66. Use the --sysconfdir=SYSDIR option at compile time to change it.