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NAME

update-initrd — generate initialization ramdisk

SYNOPSIS

update-initrd [--sysroot=sysroot]

DESCRIPTION

update-initrd generates the /boot/sortix.initrd initrd(7) containing a minimal system that searches for the root filesystem and chain boots it as described in initrd(7) and init(8). It contains an init system, fsck, filesystem drivers and configuration.
The produced minimal system contains copies of fstab(5), extfs(8), fsck.ext2(8), and init(8). If any of those files are updated then the initrd(7) should be regenerated by invoking update-initrd.
The options are as follows:
--sysroot=sysroot
Rather than generating an initrd(7) for the root filesystem, locate files in the sysroot directory instead and store the result as sysroot/etc/sortix.initrd.

FILES

/etc/fstab
/sbin/extfs
/sbin/fsck.ext2
/sbin/init

EXIT STATUS

update-initrd will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

fstab(5), initrd(7), disked(8), extfs(8), init(8), initrdfs(8), mkinitrd(8), update-grub(8)
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