Where to report initrd-generic problems?
John5342
john5342 at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 22 22:13:00 UTC 2009
2009/8/22 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 23:22:19 +0200,
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mike Chambers<mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 16:15 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> >> The initrd-generic file I get when installing new kernels in rawhide
>> >> doesn't work (raid devices don't get named as expected causing the boot
>> >> to fail), but running mkinitrd myself produces initrd files that work.
>> >> What component should I report this against?
>> >
>> > First guess is mkinitrd. They can change it accordingly if it's wrong.
>>
>> The generic initrd is created by dracut.
>
> Which is weird because the dracut package didn't get installed on the system
> even though I did a fresh install during the alpha freeze.
If i understand correctly the initrd-generic is precreated by dracut
into another rpm which means dracut is not needed on the system. I
have raised my doubts over this method before on the list for exactly
this kind of reason but my comments were ignored :(
--
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary
and those who don't...
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list