[systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] What is a criterion to differentiate sysinit.target from basic.target?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 18.07.13 21:07, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 07:54:37PM +0900, Tony Seo wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I'm Tonyseo in south of Korea.
> > 
> > As I'm a new stater, I try to study systemd.
> > 
> > When I had studied bootup procedue in systemd, I found that there are two
> > important targets which are sysinit.target and basic.target.
> > 
> > I wonder why developer of bootup process made it divided into two stage.
> This way units which are started for basic.target can depend on everything
> provided by sysinit.target.

This is nicely explained by the charts in this man page:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/bootup.html

Lennart

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