10 Aug
2019
10 Aug
'19
7:45 a.m.
On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:46 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Do, or did, anything other than Linux use a concept of an initramfs / initrd to create a
pre-(main)-init initialization environment to prepare the system to execute the
(main)-init process?
Mach-based UNIX systems (can) have a Mach init that’s separate from UNIX pid 1 init.
When using a non-colocated UNIX subsystem (like the BSD Single Server) I think I recall
that’s how the UNIX subsystem is started, along with other Mach tasks like the port name
server.
-- Chris