• Initial ramdisk (redirect from InitRD)
    initrd (initial ramdisk) is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, to be used as part of the Linux startup process. initrd and...
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  • initial RAM disk ("initrd") that was loaded previously as the temporary root file system during the bootloader stage. The initrd, which acts as a temporary...
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  • support the use of dm-crypt on the root file system. These distributions use initrd to prompt the user to enter a passphrase at the console, or insert a smart...
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    /usr/lib/debug/lib64/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux. Linux portal Linux kernel Module (Linux) initrd System.map Object file "vmlinuz Definition". www.linfo.org. Bellevue Linux...
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    the first hard disk as linux kernel image initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img-3.20.1-4 # use the file named "initrd.img–…" located in the directory /boot on...
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  • in the initrd (initial RAM disk) created when the controller is configured to run in Legacy Mode. The solution is either to build a new initrd containing...
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    the EFI system partition. Configuration file fragments, kernel images and initrd images are required to reside on the EFI system partition, as systemd-boot...
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    needing to use a (slow) harddisk (at least faster if using a E-IDE harddisk) initrd ("initial ramdisk"), a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into...
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  • decompressing it. For this reason, some Linux distributions use cramfs for initrd images (Debian 3.1 in particular) and installation images (SUSE Linux in...
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  • all users (e.g., cat, ls, cp). /boot Boot loader files (e.g., kernels, initrd). /dev Device files (e.g., /dev/null, /dev/disk0, /dev/sda1, /dev/tty, /dev/random)...
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