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authormaximilian attems <maks@debian.org>2006-08-17 17:14:01 +0200
committermaximilian attems <maks@debian.org>2006-08-17 17:14:01 +0200
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Release 0.74:
- scripts/functions: fix debug boot param - update-initramfs: checkout /etc/kernel-img.conf if lilo and grub is installed - rename mdraid to mdrun, readd mdrun as it seems to work much better with sarge systems - add an help message for rescue shell - better package desc
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Package: initramfs-tools
Architecture: all
-Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.8-0), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1), cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1)
+Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.11-1), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1), cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1)
Provides: linux-initramfs-tool
Description: tools for generating an initramfs
- This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for prepackaged
- 2.6 Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. At boot time, the
+ This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for packaged 2.6
+ Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. At boot time, the
kernel unpacks that archive into RAM, mounts and uses it as initial root file
- system. From there on the mounting of the real root file system occurs in user
- space. klibc handles the boot-time networking setup. Having the root on NFS
- is also supported.
+ system. The mounting of the real root file system occurs in early user space.
+ klibc provides utilities to setup root. Having the root on EVMS, MD, LVM2,
+ LUKS or NFS is also supported.
Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an initramfs archive.