00:40 <vagrantc> there was some button to switch boot order ... i suspect that was the issue ... but Guest53 never seemed to want to answer that question

09:24 <Guest85> Hi?

09:50 <zmatt> what a great question

14:16 <hays> what kind of tool can create a 25M recovery partition

14:19 <zmatt> what do you mean by recovery partition? for what?

14:25 <hays> like something that will fit into RAM and give you a decent userspace

14:25 <hays> i have an example... its a whole rootfs that is 25M but i don't know how they did it

14:26 <zmatt> busybox

14:26 <hays> ooh yeah looks like a lot of it is busybox

14:27 <zmatt> like, literally kernel + busybox is all you need

14:27 <zmatt> + bootloader if applicable

14:39 <hays> yeah.. i feel like ive done this before ages ago with LFS but its been while

14:42 <zmatt> just either build busybox yourself or unpack the contents of the debian busybox-static package, and either create a symlink to the appropriate place (iirc /init for initramfs or /sbin/init for a normal rootfs) or specify its path using an init= kernel parameter

14:43 <zmatt> *a symlink to a shell

14:43 <zmatt> or if busybox it built with an init, you can use that

14:43 <zmatt> if it makes sense in your application

15:17 <hays> yeah... its going to take me some thinking to see what i need. i've got this device that im seeing if I can make the rootfs btrfs

15:17 <hays> so it would be nice for the recovery system to have some btrfs tools

15:18 <zmatt> I mean, you can add any tools you need/want obviously

15:18 <hays> im going to see what buildroot produces as a start

15:18 <zmatt> season to taste

15:18 <hays> i have a feeling buildroot will yield something too big

15:18 <hays> but well see

17:31 <hays> buildroot with everything i could possibly want was 43M.. not too bad. i bet I can get it down