[install-guide: 1/18] mentioning the initramfs

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 26 05:50:57 UTC 2012


commit 0150f6cdbbe630969cd65ccbd965dbdafd1e67e5
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Fri Jul 27 00:14:02 2012 -0600

    mentioning the initramfs

 en-US/Boot_Init_Shutdown.xml |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Boot_Init_Shutdown.xml b/en-US/Boot_Init_Shutdown.xml
index 5713bee..aff5786 100644
--- a/en-US/Boot_Init_Shutdown.xml
+++ b/en-US/Boot_Init_Shutdown.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 			</listitem>
 			 <listitem>
 				<para>
-					The boot loader loads the kernel into memory, which in turn loads any necessary modules and mounts the root partition read-only.
+					The boot loader loads the kernel and a small, read-only filesystem into memory. This filesystem, or initramfs, contains all the tools required for the kernel to continue the boot process.
 				</para>
 
 			</listitem>


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