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man/mkinitcio.8: Added examples to the manpage
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Signed-off-by: Morten Linderud <morten@linderud.pw>
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Foxboron committed Apr 8, 2021
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or '/proc/cmdline'. Only used along with '--uefi'.

*-c, \--config* 'config'::
Use 'config' file to generate the ramdisk. Default: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
Use 'config' file to generate the ramdisk. Default: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'.

*-d, \--generatedir* 'directory'::
Set 'directory' as the location where the initramfs is built. This might be
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*-r, \--moduleroot* 'root'::
Specifies the root directory to find modules in, defaulting to '/'.

*-R, \--osrelease* 'filename';;
*-R, \--osrelease* 'filename'::
Include a os-release file for the UEFI executable. Only used if '--uefi' is
specified. Default: '/etc/os-release' or '/usr/lib/os-release'.

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Create an initial ramdisk for the kernel at /boot/vmlinuz-linux. The
resulting image will be written to /boot/initramfs-linux.img.
*mkinitcpio -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux --uefi /efi/EFI/Linux/systemd-linux.efi*::
Create an initial ramdisk for the kernel along with a UEFI executable.
The resuling executable will be written to /efi/EFI/Linux/systemd-linux.efi.
*mkinitcpio -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -U /efi/EFI/Linux/systemd-linux.efi -M /boot/intel-ucode.img -l /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp*::
Create an initial ramdisk for the kernel and an UEFI executable. This
also includes the Intel CPU microcode and a splash image which will be
used during boot.
See also
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A more thorough article on configuring mkinitcpio:
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