[[!meta title="PROKIT-MKINITRAMFS"]] NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
COPYRIGHT

NAME

prokit-mkinitramfs - Generate an initramfs containing an installed system

SYNOPSIS

prokit mkinitramfs -l linux-output -i initramfs-output root

DESCRIPTION

prokit mkinitramfs generates an initial RAM-based file system image containing an installed system found at root.

If root is a block device node, the block device is mounted and the initial RAM-based file system is generated from the device’s file system.

OPTIONS

-l linux-output

Copy a Linux image from the system at root to linux-output.

-i initramfs-output

Write the initial RAM-based file system image to initramfs-output.

EXAMPLES

# prokit mkinitramfs -l vmlinuz -i initrd.img $root

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2016 Patrick McDermott

The ProteanOS Development Kit is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The ProteanOS Development Kit is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the ProteanOS Development Kit. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.