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README.md

Tinyramfs

Currently tinyramfs is incomplete, don't expect that everything is working

Features

No local's, no bashisms, only POSIX shell
Portable, not distro specific
Easy to use configuration
Build time and init time hooks
LUKS (detached header, key), LVM
mdev, mdevd, eudev, systemd-udevd

Dependencies

POSIX make (build time)
POSIX utilities
POSIX shell
switch_root
mount
cpio
ldd
- Optional. Required for copying binary dependencies
strip
- Optional. Required for reducing image size by stripping binaries
blkid
- Optional. Required for UUID, LABEL, PARTUUID support
mdev OR mdevd OR eudev OR systemd-udevd OR CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
- Optional. Required for modular kernel, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/disk/* creation
lvm2
- Optional. Required for LVM support
cryptsetup
- Optional. Required for LUKS support
busybox loadkmap
- Optional. Required for keymap support
kmod OR busybox modutils with patch (already included in KISS Linux)
- Not required for monolithic kernel

Installation

git clone https://github.com/illiliti/tinyramfs
cd tinyramfs
make install

Usage

# read tinyramfs.config(5) and setup /etc/tinyramfs/config
# run as root
tinyramfs -o "/boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)"
# update your bootloader
# reboot...

Thanks

E5ten
dylanaraps

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