curious about fedora-shipped "initramfs" image?

[Ian Malone]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   from where comes the initramfs that's part of the fedora-supplied
> kernel package?  i'm curious about the first part of its init script:
> 
> 
> mount -t proc /proc /proc
> setquiet
> echo Mounting proc filesystem
> echo Mounting sysfs filesystem
> mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
> ...
> 
>   first and pedantically, one would think that you should print that
> you're mounting the proc filesystem *before* you actually try it.  :-)
> 

That is a bit odd.

>   and where does one find utilities like "setquiet"?  since the
> contents of the initramfs are being run in userspace, where does one
> find init-referenced utilities like setquiet, hotplug and mkblkdevs,
> among others?  they're not part of the initramfs image, so where do
> they come from?  (and, yes, i'm prepared for that to be a stupid
> question. :-)
> 

Nash builtins: http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/nash8.html

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