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| author | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2011-07-03 19:03:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2011-07-04 22:11:57 +0200 |
| commit | b8b732767c7ab18cbf041c61726d2c3c180f62ea (patch) | |
| tree | d50452a40cf303604fc8c30ba435ceca74e45e8a /mkinitcpio.5.txt | |
| parent | 9f52967775555a4bdae74db0918c929eb50ad5fe (diff) | |
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manpage: clarify behaviors, add example, fix typos
I've neglected to do this along the way and some options, such as -k or
-p now have additional behaviors that should be made known.
Now that basedir support is legit, add an example showing a possible
invocation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mkinitcpio.5.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | mkinitcpio.5.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mkinitcpio.5.txt b/mkinitcpio.5.txt index bfa1c9f..f963dac 100644 --- a/mkinitcpio.5.txt +++ b/mkinitcpio.5.txt @@ -36,13 +36,15 @@ Options written to the filesystem unless this option is specified. *-H* 'hookname':: - Output help for hookname 'hookname' + Output help for hookname 'hookname'. *-h*:: Output a short overview of available command-line switches. *-k* 'kernelversion':: - Use 'kernelversion'. Default is the current running kernel. + Use 'kernelversion', instead of the current running kernel. This may be a + path to a kernel image or a specific kernel version. If specified as a path to + an image, this will always be prefixed by the 'basedir'. *-L*:: List all available hooks. @@ -56,8 +58,9 @@ Options Disable color output. *-p* 'preset':: - Build initial ramdisk according to specified 'preset'. Presets are found in - /etc/mkinitcpio.d + Build initramfs image(s) according to specified 'preset'. This may be a file in + /etc/mkinitcpio.d (without the .preset extension) or a full, absolute path to a + file. *-S* 'hooks':: Skip 'hooks' when generating the image. Several hooks should be comma-separated. @@ -113,6 +116,11 @@ Examples *mkinitcpio -p kernel26*:: Create an initial ramdisk based on the 'kernel26' preset. +*mkinitcpio -b /mnt -g /mnt/boot/kernel26.img -k /boot/vmlinuz26*:: + Create an initial ramdisk for the root at /mnt, with the kernel at + /mnt/boot/vmlinuz26. The resulting image will be written to + /mnt/boot/kernel26.img. + See also -------- A more thorough article on configuring mkinitcpio: @@ -127,7 +135,7 @@ Upon writing this manpage, there were no noticeable bugs present. Please visit Authors ------- -mkinitcpio created by the Arch Linux Developer community. +mkinitcpio is created by the Arch Linux Developer community. Manpage written by::: * Glenn 'RedShift' Matthys <glenn@opengate.be> |