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Shell command: mkinitcpio

Used to create an initial ramdisk environment, needed to boot the Linux kernel.

Some flags

-p: use a Preset.

-g: generate file with name specified.

-k: Use specified kernel version instead of current running kernel. Can be:

path to path to kernel image
kernel version
keyword none (which adds no modules to the image.

See also

initial ram disk, /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, /etc/initcpio/hooks, /etc/initcpio/install.