Re: getting usb mass storage to finish before running init?

[der.eremit@email.de]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > Check available devices for root filesystem (in case you're booting from
> > IDE). If it's not there, wait a moment, then look for additional
> > devices. If nothing shows up, repeat.
>
> That's basically what my usb-boot patch for 2.4.22 does:
>   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/usb/usbboot-2422.patch
>
> I haven't tried to port it to 2.6.x.

I don't think this requires in-kernel code once an initrd or
initramfs is going.

Here's what I use for CD-ROM booting (compiles to 370k statically
linked code using glibc):

#include <sys/klog.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int pivot_root(const char *new_root, const char *put_old);

#define KLOG_GET_MESSAGES	3
#define KLOG_SET_LOGLEVEL	8

#define BUFSIZE		65536
#define DEVNAMEMAX	16
#define UNIQUEFILE	"/mnt/etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom"

void halt_system(void)
{
	while (1)
		;
}

void check_okay(int res, const char *errmsg)
{
	if (res < 0) {
		printf("Error: %s\n", errmsg);
		halt_system();
	}
}

int correct_medium(const char *devname)
{
	int res;
	struct stat buf;

	res = mount(devname, "/mnt", "iso9660", (0xC0ED << 16) | MS_RDONLY, 0);
	if (res == -1) {
		printf("No suitable medium on %s\n", devname);
		return 0;
	}

	res = stat(UNIQUEFILE, &buf);
	if (res == -1) {
		umount("/mnt");
		printf("Unrelated filesystem on %s\n", devname);
		return 0;
	}

	printf("Root filesystem found on %s\n", devname);
	return 1;
}

void change_root(void)
{
	int res;

	res = chdir("/mnt");
	check_okay(res, "could not cd into CD-ROM root filesystem");

	res = pivot_root("/mnt", "/mnt/initrd");
	check_okay(res, "could not change / to CD-ROM root filesystem");

	execl("/sbin/init", "/sbin/init");

	check_okay(-1, "could not execute /sbin/init");
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	char buf[BUFSIZE];
	char devname[DEVNAMEMAX];
	char *work, *line, *sub;
	int res, found = 0;

	puts("Attempting to locate CD-ROM device");

	klogctl(KLOG_SET_LOGLEVEL, NULL, 1);

	memset(buf, 0, BUFSIZE);

	res = klogctl(KLOG_GET_MESSAGES, buf, BUFSIZE);
	check_okay(res, "could not read kernel messages");

	work = buf;
	while (work) {
		line = strsep(&work, "\n");

		sub = strstr(line, "ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive");
		if (sub) {
			memset(devname, 0, DEVNAMEMAX);
			strcpy(devname, "/dev/");
			memcpy(devname+5, line+3, 3);

			printf("ATAPI CD-ROM at: %s\n", devname);

			if (correct_medium(devname))
				change_root();

			found = 1;
		}

		sub = strstr(line, "Attached scsi CD-ROM sr");
		if (sub) {
			memset(devname, 0, DEVNAMEMAX);
			strcpy(devname, "/dev/scd");
			memcpy(devname+8, line+26, 1);

			printf("SCSI CD-ROM at: %s\n", devname);

			if (correct_medium(devname))
				change_root();

			found = 1;
		}
	}

	if (!found)
		puts("No CD-ROM device found");
	else
		puts("Root filesystem not found on CD-ROM device(s)");

	halt_system();

	/* NOT REACHED */
	return 0;
}

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal