[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 13:08:13 UTC 2009


On 07/02/2009 12:56 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Here it is, dracut-0.3!
>
> Featuring booting from all kind of block devices, NFS, iSCSI and NBD.
>
> How to get started, if you want to test.
>
> # yum install dracut-0.3
>
> To generate a initramfs image, run:
>
> # dracut <imagename> <kernel version>
>
> to overwrite an existing image:
>
> # dracut -f <imagename> <kernel version>
>
> Try to boot from that image by modifying /etc/grub.conf. Be sure to have
> a fallback entry.
>
> If you want to boot from network have a look at the manpage.
> Basically everything can be specified on the kernel command line.
>
> Bug reports can be send directly to me (harald at redhat.com) until dracut
> appears in the bugzilla component list.
>


Ok, it seems the debug dracut module wants to be installed automatically, due to 
a bug.

You either have all binaries which are needed by the dracut debug module, or 
create the images with:


# dracut --omit debug <imagename> <kernel version>




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