mkinitrd.conf(5)

NAME

mkinitrd.conf - configuration file for mkinitrd

DESCRIPTION

The behaviour of mkinitrd(8) may be altered by changing

this file. This file is meant to be parsed as a shell script

thus the syntactical rules of a shell script will apply. See

sh(1) for more details.

VARIABLES

MODULES

The legal values are all, most, dep and none. All

modules are included on the image if it is set to all. Setting

it to most will cause mkinitrd(8) to exclude modules which are

considered unlikely to be necessary in the process of bringing up

a root file system. Setting it to dep will cause mkinitrd(8) to

use modprobe(8) to calculate exactly what modules are needed.

Setting it to none will cause mkinitrd(8) to not include any mod

ules, even if modules were specified in /etc/mkinitrd/modules.

DELAY The number of seconds the linuxrc script should

wait to allow the user to interrupt it before the system is

brought up.

ROOT If this is set to probe, mkinitrd(8) will try to

determine the modules needed to bring up the root file system us

ing /etc/fstab. It will also insert code onto the image in order

to setup a software RAID device if necessary. This can be dis

abled by setting it to a null string. If you get the error

``Unknown root device'' then this setting must be disabled and

you will need to set up the initrd image manually.

If you wish to use an alternative root device, you

can specify it here and mkinitrd(8) will use that to figure out

what is needed. You can also set the file system type of your

root device by appending it to the value of ROOT with a space in

between. You will need to quote the entire value as otherwise

the shell will interpret the file system type as a command.

This variable replaces the obsolete PROBE variable.

The values probe and the null string correspond to the values on

and off for PROBE.

UMASK The umask is used during the construction of the

directory structure and the final image.

MKIMAGE

This should be a command that produces an initrd

image given a directory. It must contain two occurrences of %s.

The first one will be replaced by the path to the directory for

the candidate image. The other one will be replaced by the name

of the output file. This can be used to produce images of types

other than CRAMFS. For example, to generate ROMFS images, set

MKIMAGE

BUSYBOX

If this is set to yes then busybox(1) will be in

cluded on the initrd image.

PKGSCRIPTS

If this is set to yes then the scripts under

/usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts will be run when the initrd image

is made.

INITRD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH

This value will be assigned to LD_LIBRARY_PATH when

mkinitrd determines the library dependencies of binaries that

will be copied onto the image.

RESUME If this is set, default to this partition to use

for resuming. The resume= passed on the command line will over

ride this setting. The kernel needs to have the power management

(PM) config's enabled.

SEE ALSO

mkinitrd(8)

AUTHOR

Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>

Initrd Tools $Date: 2004/04/01 09:34:39 $

MKINITRD.CONF(5)