source: BOOK/boot/common/bootscripts.xml @ b0b1e1d2

clfs-3.0.0-sysvinitsysvinit
Last change on this file since b0b1e1d2 was f2473a9, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 10 years ago

Add command for applying the tools update patch for the bootscripts.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-boot-bootscripts" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="bootscripts.html"?>
10
11  <title>Bootscripts for CLFS &bootscripts-clfs-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-boot-bootscripts">
14    <primary sortas="a-Bootscripts">Bootscripts</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Bootscripts package contains a set of scripts to
21    start/stop the CLFS system at bootup/shutdown.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Bootscripts</title>
27
28    <para os="p1">Apply a patch which modifies the scripts for use in
29    <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>:</para>
30
31<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bootscripts-clfs-tools_updates-patch;</userinput></screen>
32
33    <para os="a">Install the package:</para>
34
35<screen os="b"><userinput>make DESTDIR=/tools install-bootscripts</userinput></screen>
36
37  <para os="c">The <command>setclock</command> script reads the time from the
38  hardware clock, also known as the BIOS or the Complementary Metal Oxide
39  Semiconductor (CMOS) clock. If the hardware clock is set to UTC, this
40  script will convert the hardware clock's time to the local time using
41  the <filename>/tools/etc/sysconfig/clock</filename> file (which tells the
42  <command>hwclock</command> program which timezone the user is in). There
43  is no way to detect whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC, so
44  this needs to be configured manually.</para>
45
46
47
48  <para os="d">If you do not know whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC,
49  you can find out after you have booted the new machine by running the
50  <userinput>hwclock --localtime  --show</userinput> command, and if
51  necessary editing the <filename>/tools/etc/sysconfig/clock</filename> file.
52  The worst that will happen if you make a wrong guess here is that the
53  time displayed will be wrong.</para>
54
55  <para os="e">Change the value of the <envar>UTC</envar> variable below
56  to a value of <option>0</option> (zero) if the hardware clock
57  is <emphasis>not</emphasis> set to UTC time.</para>
58
59<screen os="f"><userinput>cat &gt; /tools/etc/sysconfig/clock &lt;&lt; "EOF"
60<literal># Begin /tools/etc/sysconfig/clock
61
62UTC=1
63
64# End /tools/etc/sysconfig/clock</literal>
65EOF</userinput></screen>
66
67  </sect2>
68
69  <sect2 role="content">
70    <title/>
71
72    <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
73    linkend="contents-bootscripts" role="."/></para>
74
75  </sect2>
76
77</sect1>
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