Preface

As we now have preinit and the crucial UART console available, we can start bringing up the real GNU/Linux system--Gentoo Linux in this case. This article will focus on the following topics:

• Filesystem structure and mounting procedure (in details)
• Launch sequence to bring up OpenRC
• Crafting a preinit …

The story

After struggling with HiDPI issues on native GNU/Linux and battery life issues on macOS, I resorted to using Windows 10 as the main operating system on my laptop. Though there's WSL, it's not running Gentoo and has a severely degraded performance. As crossdev is really easy to …

Preface

Chrooting is usually a key part in installing a GNU/Linux system, and there's no difference here in my GSoC 2018 work. In this article we'll build a Gentoo chroot with CHOST=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, set up ssh connection to it, and install some necessary tools.

Preparation work

First of all …

The story

My SPARC Enterprise T5120 came with two 10000 RPM SAS HDDs, both with a labeled capacity of 146GB. Gentoo was installed on the first hard drive, and thanks to the old SILO that was in charge of booting the system up, I have to keep a single-large-root partition …

Preface

Now that we have successfully upgraded Gentoo FreeBSD from 9.1 to 10.3, we need to upgrade it to 11.0 in order to catch up the latest FreeBSD system. The major steps consist of the following:

• Upgrading world
• Changing to the new profile
• Upgrade the kernel
• Upgrade …