You know more than I do on this topic. :) I do not have an URL for how
Scratch boots directly, but I can point you to documentation on the
raspberrypi.org website that shows you how to configure it in raspi-config
(basically, you select an option - all the details are abstracted away). I
have already asked this question on the raspberrypi forums, and I have not
yet received a reply:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=61117

I'll try to dig around with what little Linux knowledge I have and using
your hints to see how Scratch is booted.


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 18.11.2013, at 18:21, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just curious, how does one configure the Raspberry Pi to boot directly
> into eToys just like the new option to boot directly into Scratch?
>
> I haven't looked at how Scratch does it (do you have a URL?).
>
> But in general the simplest thing would be to just launch Squeak from the
> linux startup mechanism. When the Linux kernel is finished booting, it runs
> an executable specified in /etc/inittab. Typically that's "init" which then
> executes the rc script which in turn launches everything, including the
> graphical shell. That is where you can hook into - either with an X server
> (so you would have to make Etoys auto-start when X is run) or without the X
> server using Squeak's fbdev display driver. The latter would make startup
> faster, but you would have to benchmark both to know for sure which would
> be more efficient at runtime.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>


-- 
Charles Schultz
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