mkinitcpio
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Creates an initial ramdisk environment for booting the Linux kernel. The initial ramdisk is in essence a very small environment (early userspace) which loads various kernel modules and sets up necessary things before handing over control to init.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Features
- Command line interface
Tags
- initial-ramdisk
- initramfs
- Linux
- initramfs-generator
- boot
- system-utilities
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Arch Linux Licensing
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Creates an initial ramdisk environment for booting the Linux kernel. The initial ramdisk is in essence a very small environment (early userspace) which loads various kernel modules and sets up necessary things before handing over control to init. This makes it possible to have, for example, encrypted root file systems and root file systems on a software RAID array. mkinitcpio allows for easy extension with custom hooks, has autodetection at runtime, and many other features.