README.md

Tinyramfs

Tiny initramfs written in POSIX shell

Features

• No local's, no bashisms, only POSIX shell
• Portable, not distro specific
• Easy to use configuration
• Make time and init time hooks
• ZFS + native encryption support
• LUKS (detached header, key), LVM
• mdev, mdevd, eudev, systemd-udevd
• Resume from swap partition

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
• zfs
  • Optional. Required for ZFS support
• 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)
  • Optional. Required if kernel compiled with loadable external modules

Installation

make PREFIX=/usr install

Documentation

here

Thanks

E5ten
dylanaraps

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