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2 !!!MKINITRD.CONF
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 VARIABLES
6 SEE ALSO
7 AUTHOR
8 ----
9 !!NAME
10
11
12 mkinitrd.conf - configuration file for mkinitrd
13 !!DESCRIPTION
14
15
16 The behaviour of mkinitrd(8) may be altered by
17 changing this file. This file is meant to be parsed as a
18 shell script thus the syntactical rules of a shell script
19 will apply. See sh(1) for more details.
20 !!VARIABLES
21
22
23 __MODULES__
24
25
26 The legal values are ''all'', ''most'' and
27 ''none''. All modules are included on the image if it is
28 set to ''all''. Setting it to ''most'' will cause
29 mkinitrd(8) to exclude modules which are considered
30 unlikely to be necessary in the process of bringing up a
31 root file system. Setting it to ''none'' will cause
32 mkinitrd(8) to not include any modules, even if
33 modules were specified in
34 ''/etc/mkinitrd/modules''.
35
36
37 __DELAY__
38
39
40 The number of seconds the __linuxrc__ script should wait
41 to allow the user to interrupt it before the system is
42 brought up.
43
44
45 __ROOT__
46
47
48 If this is set to ''probe'', mkinitrd(8) will try
49 to determine the modules needed to bring up the root file
50 system using ''/etc/fstab''. It will also insert code
51 onto the image in order to setup a software __RAID__
52 device if necessary. This can be disabled by setting it to a
53 null string. If you wish to use an alternative root device,
54 you can specify it here and mkinitrd(8) will use that
55 to figure out what is needed.
56
57
58 You can also set the file system type of your root device by
59 appending it to the value of __ROOT__ with a space in
60 between. You will need to quote the entire value as
61 otherwise the shell will interpret the file system type as a
62 command.
63
64
65 This variable replaces the obsolete __PROBE__ variable.
66 The values ''probe'' and the null string correspond to
67 the values ''on'' and ''off'' for
68 __PROBE__.
69
70
71 __UMASK__
72
73
74 The umask is used during the construction of the directory
75 structure and the final image.
76
77
78 __MKIMAGE__
79
80
81 This should be a command that produces an __initrd__
82 image given a directory. It must contain two occurances of
83 ''%s''. The first one will be replaced by the path to the
84 directory for the candidate image. The other one will be
85 replaced by the name of the output file. Don't touch this
86 unless you know what you are doing.
87 !!SEE ALSO
88
89
90 mkinitrd(8)
91 !!AUTHOR
92
93
94 Herbert Xu
95 ----
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