HOWTO debug dracut

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 21:35 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> * read the dracut man page
> * remove "rhgb" from the kernel command line and maybe "quiet"
> * add "rdshell" to the kernel command line and you are dropped to a shell
> * add "rdshell rdinitdebug" to the kernel command line and dracut shell commands 
> are printed as they are executed
> * with dracut >= 002-11 ( 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134721 ), you can inspect 
> the rdinitdebug output with:
> # less /init.log
>   and
> # dmesg | less

Please also see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems , the
permanent reference for this topic. I'll add anything in Harald's mail
that's not currently on that page to it. Thanks.

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