[How do you have your own installation launching at startup? Let me know how you've got yours configured and I'll duplicate it and get back to you.

I have been calling the "picker" app by rexkp (his server seems to be down right now) from Frank van Gestel's userinit. That allowed me to use front panel buttons to run various programs depending on what I needed. Empwake is one of those.

I just dropped in Bitt's preinit.d thing Try adding this line to the shell script that's calling EmpWake:

/bin/mount -n -o nocheck,ro /drive0

/usr/local/bin/empwake

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The second line should point to wherever your EmpWake is. If you explicitly mount drive0 before EmpWake, you should be fine (I just tried it.)

I still have *no idea* why it's not running from your shell. I have error messages checking the return calls from virtually every Hijack ioctl. I'll try to add some more, but if you get this preinit thing working, you should be fine.