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29 lines
599 B
Groff
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.Dd $Mdocdate: October 5 2015 $
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.Dt INITRD 7
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm initrd
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.Nd initialization ramdisk
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
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is a achieve of a minimal userland loaded by the bootloader and passed to the
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.Xr kernel 7
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that extracts it into the initial kernel memory root filesystem. The kernel
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invokes the
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.Xr init 8
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extracted from the initrd as
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.Pa /bin/init .
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.Pp
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The initrd is in the custom format made by
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.Xr mkinitrd 8
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and can be viewed with
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.Xr initrdfs 8 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr initrd 7 ,
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.Xr kernel 7 ,
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr initrdfs 8 ,
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.Xr mkinitrd 8
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