.Dd $Mdocdate: October 5 2015 $
.Dt INITRD 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm initrd
.Nd initialization ramdisk
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Pa /boot/sortix.initrd
is a achieve of a minimal userland loaded by the bootloader and passed to the
.Xr kernel 7
that extracts it into the initial kernel memory root filesystem.  The kernel
invokes the
.Xr init 8
extracted from the initrd as
.Pa /sbin/init .
.Pp
The initrd is in the custom format made by
.Xr mkinitrd 8
and can be viewed with
.Xr initrdfs 8 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr initrd 7 ,
.Xr kernel 7 ,
.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr initrdfs 8 ,
.Xr mkinitrd 8