21 lines
704 B
Nix
21 lines
704 B
Nix
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# Create an initial ramdisk containing the specified set of packages.
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# An initial ramdisk is used during the initial stages of booting a
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# Linux system. It is loaded by the boot loader along with the kernel
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# image. It's supposed to contain everything (such as kernel modules)
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# necessary to allow us to mount the root file system. Once the root
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# file system is mounted, the `real' boot script can be called.
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#
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# An initrd is really just a gzipped cpio archive.
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#
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# A symlink `/init' is made to the store path passed in the `init'
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# argument.
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{stdenv, cpio, packages, init}:
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stdenv.mkDerivation {
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name = "initrd";
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builder = ./make-initrd.sh;
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buildInputs = [cpio];
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inherit packages init;
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}
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