Some debugging helpers

Install terminfo files so that less is useful.  Also, timeout mounting
the rootfs so that we can debug better

generate.sh

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ for rule in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-redhat* /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage
   cp -v $rule $tmpdir/lib/udev/rules.d
 done
 
+# terminfo bits make things work better if you fall into interactive mode
+for f in $(find /lib/terminfo -type f) ; do cp -v --parents $f "$tmpdir" ; done
+
 # install our files
 cp -v init $tmpdir/init
 cp -v switch_root $tmpdir/sbin/switch_root

init

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 emergency_shell()
 {
+    echo ; echo
     echo "Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!"
     echo
     bash
@@ -61,6 +62,9 @@ while [ ! -e $root ]; do
   echo -n "."
   sleep 1
   tries=$(($tries + 1))
+  if [ $tries -gt 10 ]; then
+      emergency_shell
+  fi
 done
 echo -e "\n\nMounted rootfs after $tries seconds"
 ln -s "$root" /dev/root