preparing an hbamode slackware memory stick

warning

you will need a custom kernel with usb mass storage within, unless you do that with a ramdisk (initrd / initramfs).

setup

see bootstrap-memstick

avoid disk ordering confusion

take good care of the target root partition definition

blkid /dev/${device}1
vi lala/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

...
default hbamode
...

label hbamode
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-hbamode
        append PARTUUID=... ro mitigations=off vga=791

label hbamode-vsp
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-hbamode
        append PARTUUID=... ro mitigations=off console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8

and mount points

blkid /dev/${device}1
blkid /dev/${device}2
vi lala/etc/fstab

PARTUUID=...
PARTUUID=...

ready to go

du -sh lala/
cat lala/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
cat lala/etc/fstab
sync
umount lala/
rmdir lala/

troubleshooting

etc etc-15.0-x86_64-17: system configuration files .............[ 130K]
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.utmp’
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.shadow’
eudev eudev-3.2.11-x86_64-1: dynamic device directory system ...[ 8.8M]

==> that’s not harmful, just a warning about chown usage that differs from one system to another

/dev/sda2 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12

==> disable orphan_file ext4 filesystem feature

resources

troubles

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1497523/feature-c12-e2fsck-get-a-newer-version-of-e2fsck