mkinitcpio-systemd-extras

This is a collection of mkinitcpio install hooks for systemd based initramfs.

mkinitcpio is an Arch Linux specific tool to generate images for the initial ramdisk (initramfs) required during early boot of an Arch Linux installation. There are two options how this boot phase can be executed:

• A bunch of shell scripts run by the busybox shell.

• Systemd is started already in this initramfs environment and any initialization is performed by means of systemd units.

This repository provides so-called install hooks that can be used in mkinitcpio's configuration file mkinitcpio.conf. They complement the set of install hooks for a systemd based boot process provided by other packages like e.g. systemd, mkinitcpio, cryptsetup, lvm2, ...

Caution

Tinkering with the boot process of your system is always risky. Make sure that you always have at least one option to back out.

Installation

mkinitcpio-systemd-extras is available as a package in Arch Linux' User Repository (AUR). Use makepkg to build and pacman to install the package. (Alternatively you may use your favorite AUR helper.)

Usage

See the short help available for each install hook, e.g.

mkinitcpio -H sd-tinyssh

For more details see the corresponding wiki pages.

Contribution

You are welcome to provide additional hooks or improvements of the existing ones in the form of pull requests. Mind that all hooks must provide some degree of general usefulness.