mkinitfs
This is the initramfs generator for Alpine Linux, including support for apk and Alpine Diskless boot.
This fork also displays a graphical prompt for decrypting disks, using cairo on the framebuffer.
Dependencies
To compile manually, you need to have the following build tools available:
- make
- gcc with musl and kernel-headers
nlplug-findfs will link against the following libraries (runtime deps):
- libkmod
- libblkid (from util-linux)
- libcryptsetup
- cairo
Installation
Build mkinitfs via make and install it via make install.
The installation honours the DESTDIR parameter to overwrite the sysroot path.
For testing, its not necessary to install mkinitfs into your root file system.
Tweaking
The Makefile is kept slim and debuggable.