[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Fri Jul 3 08:09:38 UTC 2009


On 07/03/2009 02:19 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 07/02/2009 06:56 AM, 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.
>>
>
>
> So, I take it this is *first cut* and so root on lvm is not yet
> supported? Any idea when?

root on LVM, MD, cryptoluks is supported




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