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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2022-09-23 14:59:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2022-09-23 15:10:53 +0200 |
| commit | 32e276708089110243682d8aaa3d58075b91f0d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 44a32b969266f7dfe9529f31e79046e78ca7e474 /man/bootup.xml | |
| parent | addc84ec9184094db4439006e8a3b955b6387f74 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-32e276708089110243682d8aaa3d58075b91f0d6.tar.gz | |
tree-wide: use the term "initrd" at most places we so far used "initramfs"
In most cases we refernced the concept as "initrd". Let's convert most
remaining uses of "initramfs" to "initrd" too, to stay internally
consistent.
This leaves "initramfs" only where it's relevant to explain historical
concepts or where "initramfs" is part of the API (i.e. in
/run/initramfs).
Follow-up for: b66a6e1a5838b874b789820c090dd6850cf10513
Diffstat (limited to 'man/bootup.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/bootup.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/bootup.xml b/man/bootup.xml index 62a34fe3d7..16bb9c0b3f 100644 --- a/man/bootup.xml +++ b/man/bootup.xml @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ boot loader will then invoke an OS kernel from disk (or the network). On systems using EFI or other types of firmware, this firmware may also load the kernel directly.</para> - <para>The kernel (optionally) mounts an in-memory file system, often generated by - <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, - which looks for the root file system. Nowadays this is implemented as an "initramfs" — a compressed CPIO + <para>The kernel (optionally) mounts an in-memory file system, often generated by <citerefentry + project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which + looks for the root file system. Nowadays this is implemented as an "initramfs" — a compressed CPIO archive that the kernel extracts into a tmpfs. In the past normal file systems using an in-memory block device (ramdisk) were used, and the name "initrd" is still used to describe both concepts. It's the boot loader or the firmware that loads both the kernel and initrd/initramfs images into memory, but the kernel |