Re: Reinventing the Hurd server bootstrap

[Justus Winter]

Hello :)

I produced a demo live cd using my new bootshell:

http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-preboot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-boot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz

Notable features:

* Boots an unmodified Debian (debootstrap --variant=minbase) from a
  readonly filesystem that does not support passive translators
  (iso9660fs).

* Starts the Hurd console early on, and executes sysvinit in a way
  that the log messages get sent to tty1.  This looks much cleaner,
  and we do not lose any messages when the console starts up later.

* libreadline.

Cheers,
Justus