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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2024-01-19 14:21:24 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2024-01-24 17:54:38 +0100
commit98118c44ae700e62a8acf36f6ed7d347c2c5503c (patch)
tree6edb526cba5837422f1c6d908369c9b241719959 /man
parentnetwork/route: manage all routes by Manager object (diff)
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Remove a few references to dracut
Let's remove some explicit references to dracut as we prefer initrds built with mkosi these days.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/bootup.xml14
-rw-r--r--man/kernel-command-line.xml7
-rw-r--r--man/localectl.xml7
-rw-r--r--man/os-release.xml2
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/bootup.xml b/man/bootup.xml
index b9a740a49a..f8c518a936 100644
--- a/man/bootup.xml
+++ b/man/bootup.xml
@@ -31,13 +31,12 @@
boot loader will then invoke an OS kernel from disk (or the network). On systems using EFI or other types
of firmware, this firmware may also load the kernel directly.</para>
- <para>The kernel (optionally) mounts an in-memory file system, often generated by <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which
- looks for the root file system. Nowadays this is implemented as an "initramfs" — a compressed CPIO
- archive that the kernel extracts into a tmpfs. In the past normal file systems using an in-memory block
- device (ramdisk) were used, and the name "initrd" is still used to describe both concepts. It's the boot
- loader or the firmware that loads both the kernel and initrd/initramfs images into memory, but the kernel
- which interprets it as a file system.
+ <para>The kernel (optionally) mounts an in-memory file system, which looks for the root file system.
+ Nowadays this is implemented as an "initramfs" — a compressed CPIO archive that the kernel extracts into
+ a tmpfs. In the past normal file systems using an in-memory block device (ramdisk) were used, and the
+ name "initrd" is still used to describe both concepts. It's the boot loader or the firmware that loads
+ both the kernel and initrd/initramfs images into memory, but the kernel which interprets it as a file
+ system.
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> may be used
to manage services in the initrd, similarly to the real system.</para>
@@ -351,7 +350,6 @@ systemd-reboot.service | | |
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-halt.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
- <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
</simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/kernel-command-line.xml b/man/kernel-command-line.xml
index ded41ffc36..8f179deec8 100644
--- a/man/kernel-command-line.xml
+++ b/man/kernel-command-line.xml
@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@
and
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>bootparam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
- <para>For command line parameters understood by the initrd, see
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut.cmdline</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- or the documentation of the specific initrd implementation of your
- installation.</para>
+ <para>For command line parameters understood by the initrd, see the documentation of the specific initrd
+ implementation of your installation.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -728,7 +726,6 @@
<member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>bootparam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.system-credentials</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbios-type-11</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
- <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut.cmdline</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-debug-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-fsck@.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-quotacheck.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
diff --git a/man/localectl.xml b/man/localectl.xml
index cfcf408a3b..e18462abab 100644
--- a/man/localectl.xml
+++ b/man/localectl.xml
@@ -50,10 +50,8 @@
<para>Note that the changes performed using this tool might require the initrd to be rebuilt to take
effect during early system boot. The initrd is not rebuilt automatically by
- <filename>localectl</filename>, this task has to be performed manually, usually using a tool like
- <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
+ <filename>localectl</filename>, this task has to be performed manually, usually by reinstalling the
+ distribution's kernel package.</para>
<para>Note that
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
@@ -222,7 +220,6 @@
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-localed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
<member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
- <member><citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
</simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index 7ea684b57f..afdb21fc57 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
compatibility with applications only looking at
<filename>/etc/</filename>. A relative symlink instead of an
absolute symlink is necessary to avoid breaking the link in a
- chroot or initrd environment such as dracut.</para>
+ chroot or initrd environment.</para>
<para><filename>os-release</filename> contains data that is
defined by the operating system vendor and should generally not be