1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c
index bb27c4e..ef42e02 100755
--- a/init/init.c
+++ b/init/init.c
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static struct command *get_first_command(struct action *act)
 {
     struct listnode *node;
     node = list_head(&act->commands);
-    if (!node)
+    if (!node || list_empty(&act->commands))
         return NULL;
 
     return node_to_item(node, struct command, clist);
@@ -651,6 +651,10 @@ static int check_startup_action(int nargs, char **args)
         ERROR("init startup failure\n");
         exit(1);
     }
+
+        /* signal that we hit this point */
+    unlink("/dev/.booting");
+
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -710,6 +714,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     mount("proc", "/proc", "proc", 0, NULL);
     mount("sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", 0, NULL);
 
+        /* indicate that booting is in progress to background fw loaders, etc */
+    close(open("/dev/.booting", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0000));
+
         /* We must have some place other than / to create the
          * device nodes for kmsg and null, otherwise we won't
          * be able to remount / read-only later on.