• damium@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Initrd contains the systemd binary and enough libraries, services, and kernel modules to get booted this far. The system failed at switch root which is where the real root disk is mounted. Initrd can contain as much or as little as needed to get a working system which can be a lot of you are using a network filesystem as a root for instance.