1 <section id="intro-chapter">
2 <title>Introduction</title>
4 <application>Yaird</application> (Yet Another mkInitRD) is an
5 application to create an initial boot image, a minimal filesystem used
6 to bring a booting Linux kernel to a level where it can access
7 the root file system and use startup scripts to bring the system
8 to the normal run level.
12 It differs from earlier <application>mkinitrd</application>
13 implementations in that it attempts to leverage the information in
14 sysfs to minimise the number of special cases that the application
15 has to know about, and in that it uses a template system to separate
16 the analysis of the system from the building of the image.
20 This document gives an overview of the design and implementation
21 of <application>Yaird</application>; see the README file for
22 usage information. This text assumes familiarity with Linux
23 system administration and the basics of hotplug and sysfs.
27 This document describes version &VERSION;
28 of <application>Yaird</application>.
29 This is a very rough, proof of concept, version.