.TH INITRAMFS.CONF 5  "$Date: 2005/09/13 $" "" "initramfs.conf manual"

.SH NAME
initramfs.conf \- configuration file for mkinitramfs

.SH DESCRIPTION
The behaviour of
.B mkinitramfs 
can be modified by its configuration file.

Each line in the file can be a configuration variable, a blank line,
or a comment. The value of an variable is assigned by an statement
of the form: \fIname\fP=[\fIvalue\fP]

.SH GENERAL VARIABLES
.TP
\fB MODULES
Specifies the modules for the initramfs image.
The default setting is \fImost\fP.

\fImost\fP adds all the framebuffer, acpi, file system, ide, sata, scsi and usb drivers.

\fIdep\fP tries to guess which modules are necessary for the running box.

\fIlist\fP includes only modules from the additional modules list.

.TP
\fB RESUME
Optional setting of the swap partition to resume from.
The resume= passed on the command line of your boot loader 
will override this setting.

.TP
\fB BUSYBOX
If this is set to \fIy\fP then \fBbusybox\fP will be included on the
initramfs image. You MUST use the -static version.

.SH NFS VARIABLES
.TP
\fB BOOT
Allows to use an nfs drive as the root of the drive. 
The default is to boot of an \fIlocal\fP media (harddrive, USB stick).
Set to \fInfs\fP for an NFS root share.

.TP
\fB DEVICE
Specifies the network interface, like eth0.

.TP
\fB NFSROOT
Defaults to \fIauto\fP in order to pick up value from DHCP server.
Otherwise you need to specify \fIHOST:MOUNT\fP.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR mkinitramfs (8)

.SH AUTHOR
The initramfs-tools are written by Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>.
This manual is maintained by Maximilian Attems <maks@sternwelten.at>.
Loosely based on mkinitrd.conf by Herbert Xu.