[BRLTTY] Starting brltty as init

[Jason White]

Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question about the possibility of moving the real init, building
> brltty so it knows where init is, moving the real init to the location
> specified in the brltty configure, and putting Programs/brltty where init
> was. I am assuming that this eliminates the need for putting a brltty line
> in inittab since brltty will be starting before init but considering the
> never-assume-anything adage, I thought I should check this point. Do I have
> to modify the real init at all other than moving it? Also, is there any
> reason this might not work and would lock me out from booting into my
> system; I do have a means of rescue ready at hand.

have you considered putting it in the initrd image instead? Under Debian, at
least, there's an option in /etc/default/brltty to do this, after which you
would have to run update-initramfs.

This would run BRLTTY even earlier in the boot process and you wouldn't have
to touch init.