Hi all, I'm actually reading the init/main.c source code to understand which is the first user space program the Linux kernel runs. As far as I understood it: 1. tries to execute the file defined by the rdinit= kernel parameter and sets it to "/init" if the parameter is not given 2. tries to execute the file defined by the init= kernel parameter 3. /sbin/init 4. /etc/init 5. /bin/init 6. /bin/sh 7. No init found - error All of them try to execute init by invoking run_init_process. So my question is, why does the rdinit= parameter exist, I suppose for reasons of compatibility with older kernel versions. But why it is set to "/init"? Searching in the web, I found information saying that the first file, the Linux kernel executes after boot is "/sbin/init". As far as I understand that's not correct. Cheers, Matthias -- motzblog.wordpress.com