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diff --git a/initramfs-tools.8 b/initramfs-tools.8 index e280ba4..c102de0 100644 --- a/initramfs-tools.8 +++ b/initramfs-tools.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH INITRAMFS-TOOLS 8 "Date: 2006/10/14" "" "mkinitramfs script overview" +.TH INITRAMFS-TOOLS 8 "Date: 2007/04/09" "" "mkinitramfs script overview" .SH NAME initramfs-tools \- an introduction to writing scripts for mkinitramfs @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ will be used during different phases of execution. Each of these will be discussed separately below with the help of an imaginary tool which performs a frobnication of a lvm partition prior to mounting the root partition. +Valid boot and hook scripts names consist solely of alphabetics, numerics +and underscores. Other scripts are discarded. + .SS Hook scripts These are used when an initramfs image is created and not included in the image itself. They can however cause files to be included in the image. @@ -18,10 +21,6 @@ These are included in the initramfs image and normally executed during kernel boot in the early user-space before the root partition has been mounted. -initramfs-tools uses shell variable names for handling dependencies. -Notice that `-' is not a valid shell variable name and thus should -not be used as script filename. - .SH INIT SCRIPT The script which is executed first and is in charge of running all other scripts can be found in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init. It takes a number of |