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23 | ||
24 | <refentry id="bootup"> | |
25 | ||
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26 | <refentryinfo> |
27 | <title>bootup</title> | |
28 | <productname>systemd</productname> | |
29 | ||
30 | <authorgroup> | |
31 | <author> | |
32 | <contrib>Developer</contrib> | |
33 | <firstname>Lennart</firstname> | |
34 | <surname>Poettering</surname> | |
35 | <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> | |
36 | </author> | |
37 | </authorgroup> | |
38 | </refentryinfo> | |
39 | ||
40 | <refmeta> | |
41 | <refentrytitle>bootup</refentrytitle> | |
42 | <manvolnum>7</manvolnum> | |
43 | </refmeta> | |
44 | ||
45 | <refnamediv> | |
46 | <refname>bootup</refname> | |
47 | <refpurpose>System bootup process</refpurpose> | |
48 | </refnamediv> | |
49 | ||
50 | <refsect1> | |
51 | <title>Description</title> | |
52 | ||
53 | <para>A number of different components are involved in the system | |
54 | boot. Immediately after power-up, the system BIOS will do minimal | |
55 | hardware initialization, and hand control over to a boot loader | |
56 | stored on a persistent storage device. This boot loader will then | |
57 | invoke an OS kernel from disk (or the network). In the Linux case, | |
58 | this kernel (optionally) extracts and executes an initial RAM disk | |
59 | image (initrd), such as generated by | |
60 | <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
61 | which looks for the root file system (possibly using | |
62 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
63 | for this). After the root file system is found and mounted, the | |
64 | initrd hands over control to the host's system manager (such as | |
65 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>) | |
66 | stored on the OS image, which is then responsible for probing all | |
67 | remaining hardware, mounting all necessary file systems and | |
68 | spawning all configured services.</para> | |
69 | ||
70 | <para>On shutdown, the system manager stops all services, unmounts | |
71 | all file systems (detaching the storage technologies backing | |
72 | them), and then (optionally) jumps back into the initrd code which | |
73 | unmounts/detaches the root file system and the storage it resides | |
74 | on. As a last step, the system is powered down.</para> | |
75 | ||
76 | <para>Additional information about the system boot process may be | |
77 | found in | |
78 | <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> | |
79 | </refsect1> | |
80 | ||
81 | <refsect1> | |
82 | <title>System Manager Bootup</title> | |
83 | ||
84 | <para>At boot, the system manager on the OS image is responsible | |
85 | for initializing the required file systems, services and drivers | |
86 | that are necessary for operation of the system. On | |
87 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
88 | systems, this process is split up in various discrete steps which | |
89 | are exposed as target units. (See | |
90 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
91 | for detailed information about target units.) The boot-up process | |
92 | is highly parallelized so that the order in which specific target | |
93 | units are reached is not deterministic, but still adheres to a | |
94 | limited amount of ordering structure.</para> | |
95 | ||
96 | <para>When systemd starts up the system, it will activate all | |
97 | units that are dependencies of <filename>default.target</filename> | |
98 | (as well as recursively all dependencies of these dependencies). | |
99 | Usually, <filename>default.target</filename> is simply an alias of | |
100 | <filename>graphical.target</filename> or | |
101 | <filename>multi-user.target</filename>, depending on whether the | |
102 | system is configured for a graphical UI or only for a text | |
103 | console. To enforce minimal ordering between the units pulled in, | |
104 | a number of well-known target units are available, as listed on | |
105 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> | |
106 | ||
107 | <para>The following chart is a structural overview of these | |
108 | well-known units and their position in the boot-up logic. The | |
109 | arrows describe which units are pulled in and ordered before which | |
110 | other units. Units near the top are started before units nearer to | |
111 | the bottom of the chart.</para> | |
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113 | <programlisting>local-fs-pre.target | |
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114 | | |
115 | v | |
013d8a39 | 116 | (various mounts and (various swap (various cryptsetup |
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117 | fsck services...) devices...) devices...) (various low-level (various low-level |
118 | | | | services: udevd, API VFS mounts: | |
119 | v v v tmpfiles, random mqueue, configfs, | |
013d8a39 | 120 | local-fs.target swap.target cryptsetup.target seed, sysctl, ...) debugfs, ...) |
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121 | | | | | | |
122 | \__________________|_________________ | ___________________|____________________/ | |
123 | \|/ | |
124 | v | |
125 | sysinit.target | |
126 | | | |
127 | ____________________________________/|\________________________________________ | |
128 | / | | | \ | |
129 | | | | | | | |
130 | v v | v v | |
131 | (various (various | (various rescue.service | |
132 | timers...) paths...) | sockets...) | | |
133 | | | | | v | |
134 | v v | v <emphasis>rescue.target</emphasis> | |
135 | timers.target paths.target | sockets.target | |
136 | | | | | | |
b44787bd | 137 | v \_________________ | ___________________/ |
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138 | \|/ |
139 | v | |
140 | basic.target | |
141 | | | |
142 | ____________________________________/| emergency.service | |
143 | / | | | | |
144 | | | | v | |
145 | v v v <emphasis>emergency.target</emphasis> | |
146 | display- (various system (various system | |
147 | manager.service services services) | |
148 | | required for | | |
149 | | graphical UIs) v | |
150 | | | <emphasis>multi-user.target</emphasis> | |
151 | | | | | |
152 | \_________________ | _________________/ | |
153 | \|/ | |
154 | v | |
155 | <emphasis>graphical.target</emphasis></programlisting> | |
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156 | |
157 | <para>Target units that are commonly used as boot targets are | |
158 | <emphasis>emphasized</emphasis>. These units are good choices as | |
159 | goal targets, for example by passing them to the | |
160 | <varname>systemd.unit=</varname> kernel command line option (see | |
161 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>) | |
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162 | or by symlinking <filename>default.target</filename> to them. |
163 | </para> | |
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164 | |
165 | <para><filename>timers.target</filename> is pulled-in by | |
166 | <filename>basic.target</filename> asynchronously. This allows | |
167 | timers units to depend on services which become only available | |
168 | later in boot.</para> | |
169 | </refsect1> | |
170 | ||
171 | <refsect1> | |
172 | <title>Bootup in the Initial RAM Disk (initrd)</title> | |
173 | <para>The initial RAM disk implementation (initrd) can be set up | |
174 | using systemd as well. In this case, boot up inside the initrd | |
175 | follows the following structure.</para> | |
176 | ||
177 | <para>The default target in the initrd is | |
178 | <filename>initrd.target</filename>. The bootup process begins | |
179 | identical to the system manager bootup (see above) until it | |
180 | reaches <filename>basic.target</filename>. From there, systemd | |
181 | approaches the special target <filename>initrd.target</filename>. | |
182 | If the root device can be mounted at | |
183 | <filename>/sysroot</filename>, the | |
184 | <filename>sysroot.mount</filename> unit becomes active and | |
185 | <filename>initrd-root-fs.target</filename> is reached. The service | |
186 | <filename>initrd-parse-etc.service</filename> scans | |
187 | <filename>/sysroot/etc/fstab</filename> for a possible | |
188 | <filename>/usr</filename> mount point and additional entries | |
189 | marked with the <emphasis>x-initrd.mount</emphasis> option. All | |
190 | entries found are mounted below <filename>/sysroot</filename>, and | |
191 | <filename>initrd-fs.target</filename> is reached. The service | |
192 | <filename>initrd-cleanup.service</filename> isolates to the | |
193 | <filename>initrd-switch-root.target</filename>, where cleanup | |
194 | services can run. As the very last step, the | |
195 | <filename>initrd-switch-root.service</filename> is activated, | |
196 | which will cause the system to switch its root to | |
197 | <filename>/sysroot</filename>. | |
198 | </para> | |
199 | ||
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200 | <programlisting> : (beginning identical to above) |
201 | : | |
202 | v | |
203 | basic.target | |
204 | | emergency.service | |
205 | ______________________/| | | |
206 | / | v | |
207 | | sysroot.mount <emphasis>emergency.target</emphasis> | |
208 | | | | |
209 | | v | |
210 | | initrd-root-fs.target | |
211 | | | | |
212 | | v | |
213 | v initrd-parse-etc.service | |
214 | (custom initrd | | |
215 | services...) v | |
216 | | (sysroot-usr.mount and | |
217 | | various mounts marked | |
218 | | with fstab option | |
219 | | x-initrd.mount...) | |
220 | | | | |
221 | | v | |
222 | | initrd-fs.target | |
223 | \______________________ | | |
224 | \| | |
225 | v | |
226 | initrd.target | |
227 | | | |
228 | v | |
229 | initrd-cleanup.service | |
230 | isolates to | |
231 | initrd-switch-root.target | |
232 | | | |
233 | v | |
234 | ______________________/| | |
235 | / v | |
236 | | initrd-udevadm-cleanup-db.service | |
237 | v | | |
238 | (custom initrd | | |
239 | services...) | | |
240 | \______________________ | | |
241 | \| | |
242 | v | |
243 | initrd-switch-root.target | |
244 | | | |
245 | v | |
246 | initrd-switch-root.service | |
247 | | | |
248 | v | |
249 | Transition to Host OS</programlisting> | |
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250 | </refsect1> |
251 | ||
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252 | <refsect1> |
253 | <title>System Manager Shutdown</title> | |
254 | ||
255 | <para>System shutdown with systemd also consists of various target | |
256 | units with some minimal ordering structure applied:</para> | |
257 | ||
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258 | <programlisting> (conflicts with (conflicts with |
259 | all system all file system | |
260 | services) mounts, swaps, | |
261 | | cryptsetup | |
262 | | devices, ...) | |
263 | | | | |
264 | v v | |
265 | shutdown.target umount.target | |
266 | | | | |
267 | \_______ ______/ | |
268 | \ / | |
269 | v | |
270 | (various low-level | |
271 | services) | |
272 | | | |
273 | v | |
274 | final.target | |
275 | | | |
276 | _____________________________________/ \_________________________________ | |
277 | / | | \ | |
278 | | | | | | |
279 | v v v v | |
0e0320e0 | 280 | systemd-reboot.service systemd-poweroff.service systemd-halt.service systemd-kexec.service |
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281 | | | | | |
282 | v v v v | |
283 | <emphasis>reboot.target</emphasis> <emphasis>poweroff.target</emphasis> <emphasis>halt.target</emphasis> <emphasis>kexec.target</emphasis></programlisting> | |
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284 | |
285 | <para>Commonly used system shutdown targets are | |
286 | <emphasis>emphasized</emphasis>.</para> | |
287 | </refsect1> | |
288 | ||
289 | <refsect1> | |
290 | <title>See Also</title> | |
291 | <para> | |
292 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
293 | <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>boot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
294 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
295 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.target</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
296 | <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
297 | </para> | |
298 | </refsect1> | |
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299 | |
300 | </refentry> |