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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-17 17:49:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-17 17:49:34 +0200 |
| commit | fd1b1fa296886652ec34a117b6289cb64f471a97 (patch) | |
| tree | f775dd78daeededfab88a1d15ebcf700314f4790 /gnu | |
| parent | a1906758c31036c30f8c11703daa4202adde8dac (diff) | |
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doc: Add "Initial RAM Disk" section.
* doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): New node.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (expression->initrd): Adjust docstring.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm b/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm index afbfc692d3..9e39f2d663 100644 --- a/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm +++ b/gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm @@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ (to-copy '()) (linux #f) (linux-modules '())) - "Return a package that contains a Linux initrd (a gzipped cpio archive) -containing GUILE and that evaluates EXP upon booting. LINUX-MODULES is a list -of `.ko' file names to be copied from LINUX into the initrd. TO-COPY is a -list of additional derivations or packages to copy to the initrd. MODULES is -a list of Guile module names to be embedded in the initrd." + "Return a derivation that builds a Linux initrd (a gzipped cpio archive) +containing GUILE and that evaluates EXP, a G-expression, upon booting. + +LINUX-MODULES is a list of '.ko' file names to be copied from LINUX into the +initrd. TO-COPY is a list of additional derivations or packages to copy to +the initrd. MODULES is a list of Guile module names to be embedded in the +initrd." ;; General Linux overview in `Documentation/early-userspace/README' and ;; `Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt'. |