The init system

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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Overview</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Started in Ubuntu in 2005 and adopted in Debian later that year
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      <tt>mkinitramfs</tt> builds an initramfs image using the
+      included scripts, necessary kernel modules, udev, and utilities
+      from klibc-utils or busybox
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Uses build-time and boot-time hook scripts for
+      extensibility
+      <ul>
+       <li>Used by btrfs-tools, cryptsetup, lvm2, mdadm, etc.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Supports dependencies within each set of scripts
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>The init system</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Mount <tt>devtmpfs</tt>, <tt>devpts</tt>, <tt>procfs</tt>,
+      <tt>sysfs</tt>, <tt>tmpfs</tt> at <tt>/run</tt>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Run <tt>init-top</tt> scripts - includes starting udev
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Load explicitly configured modules
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Run <tt>init-premount</tt> scripts
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Run <tt>local-top</tt> or <tt>nfs-top</tt> scripts
+      - e.g. mdadm setup
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Run <tt>local-premount</tt> or <tt>nfs-premount</tt> scripts
+      - e.g. btrfs scan, resume from disk
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Mount root filesystem
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>