.\" Generated by scdoc 1.11.0 .\" Complete documentation for this program is not available as a GNU info page .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .nh .ad l .\" Begin generated content: .TH "tinyramfs" "5" "2020-09-04" .P .SH NAME .P Tinyramfs - configuration file .P .SH SYNOPSIS \fB/etc/tinyramfs/config\fR .P .SH DESCRIPTION .P Let's reduce confusing situations and document everything !\& .P .SS MAN PAGE SYNTAX .P .nf .RS 4 * - any value [a] - optional value \&.\&.\&. - can be repeated 0|1 - choice between no and yes .fi .RE .P .SS CONFIG SYNTAX .P Tinyramfs configuration file is a list of environment variables.\& Each variable must be written in POSIX way, bashism not allowed.\& .P Example: .P .nf .RS 4 key=value .fi .RE .P If value contains spaces it must must be quoted.\& .P .nf .RS 4 key="value value2" .fi .RE .P If value contains special symbols like $, it must be escaped or quoted using single quotes.\& .P .nf .RS 4 key=\\$value key='$value' .fi .RE .P If line exceeded maximum space on your display and you want to make it more readable, you can concatenate them.\& .P .nf .RS 4 key=value key="${key}value" .fi .RE .P If you want to temporary undefine variable without actually deleting it, you can simply prepend #.\& .P .nf .RS 4 #key=value .fi .RE .P .SH GENERAL OPTIONS .P \fBmonolith\fR=0|1 .P .RS 4 Monolithic kernel means kernel with builtin modules.\& If you didn't build kernel yourself, then in most cases you have modular kernel and you don't need to enable this option.\& To check if you have monolithic you need to check if \fB/lib/modules//modules\fR exist.\& If this directory doesn't exist you probably have monolithic kernel which means you need to set \fBmonolith\fR to \fB1\fR.\& .P .RE \fBhostonly\fR=0|1 .P .RS 4 Hostonly mode enumerates \fBsysfs\fR(5) and copies only neccessary modules instead of copying all modules.\& Which means that this mode can dramatically reduce initramfs size.\& This option ignored if \fBmonolith\fR was set to \fB1\fR.\& .P .RE \fBcompress\fR=command [args .\&.\&.\&] .P .RS 4 Specify which command will be used to compress initramfs image.\& There is a lot of commands you can use, such as: .P .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} xz .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} zst (if supported by kernel) .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} gzip .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} bzip2 .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} and many more .\&.\&.\& .RE .P You can set compression level by specifing -[0-9] in args.\& For example - gzip -9.\& .P .RE \fBroot\fR=UUID|LABEL|/dev/*|PARTUUID .P .RS 4 Specify which way tinyramfs will use to look up root filesystem.\& .P .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} UUID - lookup device by uuid .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} LABEL - lookup device by label .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} /dev/* - lookup device by full path .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} PARTUUID - lookup device by partition uuid .RE .P You must install \fBblkid\fR(8) (avalable in toybox, busybox, util-linux) for ability to use UUID, LABEL, PARTUUID.\& Note that PARTUUID only supported in util-linux \fBblkid\fR(8).\& .P .RE \fBroot_type\fR=type .P .RS 4 Explicitly set root filesystem type instead of automatically discovering via /proc/mounts.\& This option must be specified if you booted from Live CD.\& .P .RE \fBroot_opts\fR=opts .RS 4 .P See \fBfstab\fR(5) fourth field.\& .P .RE \fBhooks\fR=hook [hook .\&.\&.\&] .P .RS 4 Hooks provide a flexible way to extend tinyramfs with custom scripts.\& You must know that \fBhooks are launched in the order in which they are specified\fR.\& List of shipped by default hooks: .P .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} lvm - LVM support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} luks - LUKS support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} mdev - mdev support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} proc - CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} mdevd - mdevd support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} eudev - eudev support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} keymap - keymap support .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} systemd-udevd - systemd udevd support .RE .P See below how to use them.\& If hook doesn't have options, then it's not yet documented or can be used "as is".\& .P .P .RE .SH HOOKS OPTIONS .P \fBlvm_opts\fR=[tag, name, group, config, discard] .P .RS 4 .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} tag - trigger lvm by tag .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} name - trigger lvm by logical volume name.\& group must be specified .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} group - trigger lvm by volume group name .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} config - embed /etc/lvm.\&conf config .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} discard - enable issue_discards .RE .P .RE \fBluks_opts\fR=root=UUID|LABEL|/dev/*|PARTUUID, [key, name, header, discard] .P .RS 4 .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} key - embed key .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} name - device mapper name .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} root - encrypted root .RS 4 .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} UUID - lookup device by uuid .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} LABEL - lookup device by label .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} /dev/* - lookup device by full path .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} PARTUUID - lookup device by partition uuid .RE .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} header - embed header .RE .RS 4 .ie n \{\ \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c .\} .el \{\ .IP \(bu 4 .\} discard - enable allow-discards .RE .P .RE \fBkeymap_path\fR=/path/to/keymap .P .RS 4 Specify location to binary keymap.\& Currently, this hook supports loading keymap only via busybox loadkmap.\& kbd loadkeys not supported.\& .P .RE .SH EXAMPLES .P Remember, it's just examples !\& Don't copy blindly !\& Your configuration may (and should) differ.\& .P .SS ROOT .P .nf .RS 4 hooks=eudev root=/dev/sda1 .fi .RE .P .SS ROOT + MONOLITH + PROC (CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER) .P .nf .RS 4 hooks=proc monolith=1 root=/dev/nvme0n1p1 .fi .RE .P .SS ROOT + COMPRESS .P .nf .RS 4 hostonly=1 hooks=mdevd compress="gzip -9" root=PARTUUID=8e05009d-a1d5-4fdb-b407-b0e79360555c .fi .RE .P .SS ROOT + KEYMAP .P .nf .RS 4 root_type=f2fs hooks="eudev keymap" root=UUID=13bcb7cc-8fe5-4f8e-a1fe-e4b5b336f3ef keymap_path=/usr/share/bkeymaps/colemak/en-latin9\&.bmap .fi .RE .P .SS ROOT + LUKS .P .nf .RS 4 hooks="mdev luks" root=LABEL=my_root luks_opts=root=PARTUUID=35f923c5-083a-4950-a4da-e611d0778121 luks_opts="${luks_opts},key=/root/key,header=/root/header,discard=1" .fi .RE .P .SS ROOT + LVM + LUKS .P .nf .RS 4 compress="lz4 -9" hooks="eudev lvm luks" luks_opts=root=/dev/sdb2,discard=1 lvm_opts=name=lvm1,group=lvm_grp2,config=1,discard=1 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/aa82d7bb-ab2b-4739-935f-fd8a5c9a6cb0 .fi .RE .P .SH SEE ALSO .P \fBtinyramfs\fR(8) \fBtinyramfs.\&cmdline\fR(7)