DGRESSIONS

• It must mount the vital kernel filesystem /dev,/sys,/var,/proc.
• It must mount the root partition, first in read only, check the partition integrity fsck and the remount-it with write privileges.
• It must mount user-defined partitions by reading /etc/fstab
• It must load required kernel modules, and user-defined ones. See udev
• It must start and use the syslog
• It must activate swap
• It must init the Linux consoles TTYs
• It must configure and start user-defined network interfaces
• It must start, and watch user-defined daemons
• Mounted encrypted partitions crypfs
• Early-start in RAM only filesystem initramfs
• Setup System Clock
• Start X and X environment
• Start the cron daemon
• Init system locales
• Init system hostname
• Anything that systemd does that you think is cool

GRESSIONS

• See the status of a daemon
• Start a deamon
• Stop a daemon
• Reload the configuration without stopping the program
• Enable or Disable a daemon (Do / Do not start it by default)