From 90e3282b897d6b4ddd07d24cef2407b27668fbe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:46:39 +0200 Subject: Document how to boot a subhurd fast --- hurd/subhurd.mdwn | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'hurd') diff --git a/hurd/subhurd.mdwn b/hurd/subhurd.mdwn index fa01c0c4..e813a7ca 100644 --- a/hurd/subhurd.mdwn +++ b/hurd/subhurd.mdwn @@ -151,6 +151,15 @@ numbers are different, the order should usually match. Often it also helps to look at the number of threads (e.g. using `ps -l`), as many servers have very characteristic thread counts. +## Faster boot + +If you do not need daemons etc. you can just run a shell, similary to a chroot: + + boot /dev/hd0s6 -c init=/bin/bash + +Unless you change the boot script to pass `--writable` to ext2fs, you will want to remount / read-write: + + fsysopts / --writable ### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-08-09 -- cgit v1.2.3