Mmm.. I've thought about it some more, and it will not work for you as a standalone script -- it still needs to have the filesystems formatted and the like.
So I'll spin a builder image that incorporates it.
One issue I had while preparing this, was that the initial partitioning is still done by the firmware (?) prior to the /sbin/init script being run -- where we then want to redo the partitioning.
This is not a big problem, because we leave the root filesystem in the exact same place/size in the new partitioning scheme, so programs don't suddenly crash when we do that.
But the kernel doesn't normally allow use of the modified /dev/hda partition table until after a reboot (some of my own ancient code). So the v4 builder image includes a new prerelease Hijack kernel that gets rid of that restriction / safety-valve.
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