need a patch to make vanilla kernel call systemd instead of init

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 18.04.11 23:06, Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula (vamsikrishna.brahmajosyula at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I dont know if its the right place to ask this question.
> 
> I use fedora 15. I built a vanilla kernel. I observed that it calls the
> 'init' instead of systemd. Then I edited the grub entry making
> init=/bin/systemd which works fine. But i want to know if i can get the
> patch to the vanilla kernel that does the change in the source. I know a
> place (linux/init/main.c:init()) but was not sure if anything else needs to
> be done, i am sort of a newbie in terms of modifying the kernel .
> 
> Or if my first observation is wrong.
>  I have one other question, is init patched to call systemd in fedora 15 or
> is it done in the kernel?

On a systemd system /sbin/init is a symlink to /bin/systemd.

$ rpm -qf /sbin/init
systemd-24-1.fc15.x86_64
$ ls -l /sbin/init
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14  6. Apr 22:02 /sbin/init -> ../bin/systemd*

Lennart

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