Hmmm... I'm unsure if that's better or worse for my purposes. On the one hand, it means my implementation doesn't depend on busybox-power, on the other, I'm lazy, and if I were to package my version of console-at-boot, it'd be easier for me to put busybox-power as a dependency than to figure out how to make the autobuilder build all the sources right...

I'll look into it eventually.

Hmm... up to you if you want to package it. I'd be happy to though, if you don't feel like maintaining it. I know I promised myself the moment I started uploading stuff to the repository, that I would maintain what I upload as long as I think there's any users who can benefit from it. (Also, since the binaries are small I was going to suggest not optifying kbd; though I suppose power users who might need loadkeys/dumpkeys from the recovery consoles can figure out how to mount the /home and /opt partitions.)

As for your recovery-boot, since I don't use bootmenu, I can't tell you for sure if it works; BUT my experiences with my versions added as /bootmenu.sh and to /sbin/preinit worked fine and that was me going off your code, so I think it should be safe. One thing I request is that your package clearly indicates it's a bootmenu entry, as I will eventually package my /sbin/preinit added version too. Don't want users getting confused between the two. I'm guessing "recovery-boot" is what you'll use as the literal package name?