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-initramfs-tools launches, as pid 1, a script called /init which is used to call
-all of the various configured scripts which are installed into
-'/etc/initramfs-tools/scripts'.
-
-Some of this scripts are executed in subshells, thus they cannot contain the
-final 'pivot_root' (or actually 'switch_root' now), but some of the scripts are
-sourced from the pid1 'sh' process.
-
-There is an environment variable called 'BOOT' which is set to 'local' by
-default and which can be overriden on the kernel command line. The pid1 process
-will source a file named with the value of the 'BOOT' variable:
-
-    # Always load local and nfs (since these might be needed for /etc or
-    # /usr, irrespective of the boot script used to mount the rootfs).
-    . /scripts/local
-    . /scripts/nfs
-    . /scripts/${BOOT}
-
-The BOOT script is used to define functions that will be called within pid1;
-particularly (from '/scripts/local', for example):
-
-
-    mountroot()
-    {
-      local_mount_root
-    }
-
-    mount_top()
-    {
-      # Note, also called directly in case it's overridden.
-      local_top
-    }
-
-    mount_premount()
-    {
-      # Note, also called directly in case it's overridden.
-      local_premount
-    }
-
-    mount_bottom()
-    {
-      # Note, also called directly in case it's overridden.
-      local_bottom
-    }
-
-
-Thus, it should be possible to add a script '/script/samizdat' which overrides
-one of these functions, and then add a BOOT=samizdat parameter.
-
-(Note: the 'local' versions of these scripts merely call 'run_scripts' on
-directories named like '/scripts/local-premount' etc. -- 'run_scripts' runs
-scripts in new processes, it does not source them from pid 1. But see below.)
-
-Almost certainly, the samizdat script should simply define the function 'mountroot'.
-
-Note: if it was desired not to have to set a kernel parameter, it would also be
-possible to 'trick' the system into executing code as pid1 through any script
-called with 'run_scripts' (such as a file placed in '/scripts/local-bottom').
-
-A script called with 'run_scripts' will run in a separate process, but after
-each script is called, pid1 will source the file '/conf/param.conf'.
-
-Thus, to overwrite the mountroot() function, something like this should suffice:
-
-  cat > /conf/mountroot-override <<EOF
-
-  mountroot()
-  {
-    # ...
-  }
-  EOF
-  
-  echo '. /conf/mountroot-override' >> /conf/param.conf
-
-Or even just:
-
-  echo BOOT=samizdat >> /conf/mountroot-override
-
-
-
-
-
-
-This is probably the approach to take:
-
-  Create two scripts:
-
-    /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-bottom/samizdat
-    /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/samizdat
-
-  The first script just does:
-
-      echo BOOT=samizdat         >> /conf/param.conf
-  
-  The second script calls out to the existing samizdat initrd code. It can even
-  'exec' the original samizdat 'init', although it probably shouldn't.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Another idea:
-
-
-  The first script waits for a samizdat read-only ISO, then configures the rest
-  of the boot process:
-
-    * Find the btrfs seed filesystem on the ISO
-    * Mount it as a loop device
-    * Add a ramfs to it, making it read-write
-    * Chroot into this system and run code to interact with the user and determine what to do:
-      * Find existing encrypted LUKS partitions
-      * Find existing encrypted GPG keys
-      * Allow the user to decrypt GPG keys -- saving the password in order to restart GPG agent
-      * Allow the user to create a new LUKS partition or choose an existing one
-    * If successful:
-
-      echo BOOT=samizdat         >> /conf/param.conf
-      echo SAMIZDAT_LUKS_DEV=... >> /conf/param.conf   # unencrypted dm dev
-      echo SAMIZDAT_GPG_ID=...   >> /conf/param.conf   # record the user we've authenticated as
-    
-  The second script does the rest of the work:
-  
-    * ...
-
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-
-grepping for param.conf:
-
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot:                 # Apparently ROOT is already set in /conf/param.conf for
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot:                 if [ -f /conf/param.conf ] && grep -q "^ROOT=" /conf/param.conf; then
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot:                         NEWROOT=$(sed -n 's/^ROOT=//p' /conf/param.conf)
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot:                                 echo "ROOT=$NEWROOT" >>/conf/param.conf
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions:              echo "[ -e /conf/param.conf ] && . /conf/param.conf" >> ${initdir}/ORDER
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions:              if [ -e /conf/param.conf ]; then
-/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions:                      . /conf/param.conf
-
-Relevant instances of 'run_scripts':
-
-      Definition:
-
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions:run_scripts()
-
-      Uses in pid1:
-
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init:run_scripts /scripts/init-top
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init:run_scripts /scripts/init-premount
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init:run_scripts /scripts/init-bottom
-
-      Uses in 'local':
-
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local:               run_scripts /scripts/local-top
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local:       run_scripts /scripts/local-block "$@"
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local:               run_scripts /scripts/local-premount
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local:               run_scripts /scripts/local-bottom
-      
-        Note that 'local' is unconditionally executed in init:
-        
-
-
-      Panic hooks:
-
-        /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions:   run_scripts /scripts/panic