Mandriva 2008 ------------- 1 - Add init=/sbin/finit-mdv to the kernel boot line 2 - Provide a suitable /usr/sbin/services.sh, this is the one I use in my test system running e17: mkdir /var/lock/subsys chmod 1777 /var/lock/subsys /etc/init.d/network start dhclient eth0 /sbin/start_udev& /etc/init.d/portmap start /etc/init.d/nfs-common start If you use KDE or need more services, see examples in contrib/ 3 - Create /etc/finit.conf with user, module, filesystems to check and hostname parameters. See the included finit.conf for more information. If no user is specified, user "user" will be used as default. 4 - Set the pointer device in the X server configuration to /dev/input/mice Mandriva 2008.1 --------------- If you have a stuck nash-hotplug consuming 100% of CPU after the boot, you may want to patch mkinitrd using patches/mkinitrd-6.0.34-nash-hotplug.patch