confused about firstboot

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 07:41 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   what is responsible for the initial invocation of "firstboot"?
> > based on my reading of the script /etc/rc.d/init.d/firstboot, since
> > it's obviously a chkconfig-based script, i have to assume that, upon
> > installation, there are symlinks to this script in place that cause
> > firstboot to run, after which the symlinks are removed, is that
> > correct?
>
>     Nope; it needs to be so.  There's usually a difference between the
> install images and the actual kernel that you'll live with every day.
> That's one reason for having an initial reboot.  (Notice, of course,
> that "The other leading brand" has to reboot 4-5 times for an install.)

i'm not entirely sure what you've just explained here, but here's a
more direct question -- should i be able to reboot sometime down the
road by adding "reconfig" to the kernel parms line, and have firstboot
run again in reconfigure mode?

the "firstboot" script certainly suggests that, but it can't possibly
happen.

rday