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Fix date format in manual pages.
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.Dd October 5, 2015
Add manual pages.
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.Dt INITRD 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm initrd
.Nd initialization ramdisk
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
Fix typos in initrd(7).
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is an archive of a minimal userland loaded by the bootloader and passed to the
Add manual pages.
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.Xr kernel 7
Correct manpage spacing per roff(7) convention. roff(7) dictates that "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an input line." Instead of doing this, Sortix manpages (incorrectly) used double-spaces to separate sentences. Additionally, fix a few small typos.
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that extracts it into the initial kernel memory root filesystem.
The kernel invokes the
Add manual pages.
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.Xr init 8
extracted from the initrd as
Rewrite init(8).
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.Pa /sbin/init .
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.Pp
The initrd is in the custom format made by
.Xr mkinitrd 8
and can be viewed with
.Xr initrdfs 8 .
Add update-initrd(8).
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.Pp
The
.Xr update-initrd 8
program creates a minimal initrd that locates the root filesystem and chain
boots it as described in
.Xr init 8 .
Add manual pages.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr initrd 7 ,
.Xr kernel 7 ,
.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr initrdfs 8 ,
Add update-initrd(8).
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.Xr mkinitrd 8 ,
.Xr update-initrd 8
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