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Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by Flowdalic on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:54PM (#36498497)
The kernel usually just needs to know which binary to execute as init, which is often provided as kernel command line argument by the bootloader.
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Re:OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like sy... by djbusby on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:17PM (#36498799)
I use syslinux, which is manually updated, no init is passed in.

In the Gentoo kernel make menuconfig there are options for Systemd vs OpenRC - not entirely sure what they do.

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