3 - fixed skipcpio signature checking
7 - changed dracut tarball compression to xz
8 - new argument "--rebuild"
9 - add lzo, lz4 compression
10 - install: install all binaries with <name> found in PATH
11 - lsinitrd can now handle initramfs images with an early cpio prepended
12 (microcode, ACPI tables)
13 - mkinitrd-suse added as a compat stub for dracut
14 - lvm: install thin utils for non-hostonly
15 - resume: fix swap detection in hostonly
16 - avoid loading unnecessary 32-bit libraries for 64-bit initrds
17 - crypt: wait for systemd password agents
18 - crypt: skip crypt swaps with password files
19 - network: before doing dhcp, dracut now checks, if the link has a carrier
20 - network: dhclient-script.sh now sets the lease time
21 - network: include usbnet drivers
22 - network: include all ethernet drivers
23 - network: add rd.bootif=0 to ignore BOOTIF
24 - i18n: introduce i18n_install_all, to install everything i18n related
25 - support SuSE DASD configurations
26 - support SuSE zfcp configurations
27 - support SuSE compressed KEYMAP= setting
28 - usrmount: always install the module,
29 so always mount /usr from within the initramfs
30 - test/TEST-17-LVM-THIN: new test case for lvm thin pools
31 - "halt" the machine in systemd mode for die()
35 - do not run dhcp on parts of assembled network interfaces (bond, bridge)
36 - add option to turn on/off prelinking
37 --prelink, --noprelink
39 - add ACPI table overriding
40 - do not log to syslog/kmsg/journal for UID != 0
41 - lvm/mdraid: Fix LVM on MD activation
42 - bcache module removed (now in bcache-tools upstream)
43 - mdadm: also install configs from /etc/mdadm.conf.d
44 - fixes for mdadm-3.2.6+
45 - mkinitrd: better compat support for SUSE
46 - fcoe: add FCoE UEFI boot device support
47 - rootfs-block: add support for the rootfallback= kernel cmdline option
59 - improved hostonly device recognition
60 - improved hostonly module recognition
61 - add dracut.css for dracut.html
62 - do not install udev rules from /etc in generic mode
63 - fixed LABEL= parsing for swap devices
64 - fixed iBFT network setup
65 - url-lib.sh: handle 0-size files with curl
66 - dracut.asc: document debugging dracut on shutdown
67 - if rd.md=0, use dmraid for imsm and ddf
68 - skip empty dracut modules
69 - removed caching of kernel cmdline
70 - fixed iso-scan, if the loop device driver is a kernel module
71 - bcache: support new blkid
72 - fixed ifup udev rules
73 - ifup with dhcp, if no "ip=" specified for the interface
83 - add parameter --print-cmdline
84 This prints the kernel command line parameters for the current disk
86 $ dracut --print-cmdline
87 rd.luks.uuid=luks-e68c8906-6542-4a26-83c4-91b4dd9f0471
88 rd.lvm.lv=debian/root rd.lvm.lv=debian/usr root=/dev/mapper/debian-root
89 rootflags=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered
91 - dracut.sh: add --persistent-policy option and persistent_policy conf option
92 --persistent-policy <policy>:
93 Use <policy> to address disks and partitions.
94 <policy> can be any directory name found in /dev/disk.
95 E.g. "by-uuid", "by-label"
96 - dracut now creates the initramfs without udevadm
97 that means the udev database does not have to populated
98 and the initramfs can be built in a chroot with
99 /sys /dev /proc mounted
100 - renamed dracut_install() to inst_multiple() for consistent naming
101 - if $libdirs is unset, fall back to ld.so.cache paths
102 - always assemble /usr device in initramfs
103 - bash module added (disable it, if you really want dash)
104 - continue to boot, if the main loop times out, in systemd mode
105 - removed inst*() shell pure versions, dracut-install binary is in charge now
106 - fixed ifcfg file generation for vlan
107 - do not include adjtime and localtime anymore
108 - fixed generation of zfcp.conf of CMS setups
109 - install vt102 terminfo
110 dracut_install() is still there for backwards compat
111 - do not strip files in FIPS mode
112 - fixed iBFT interface configuration
113 - fs-lib: install fsck and fsck.ext*
114 - shutdown: fixed killall_proc_mountpoint()
115 - network: also wait for ethernet interfaces to setup
116 - fixed checking for FIPS mode
130 - do not include the resume dracut module in hostonly mode,
131 if no swap is present
132 - don't warn twice about omitted modules
133 - use systemd-cat for logging on systemd systems, if logfile is unset
134 - fixed PARTUUID parsing
135 - support kernel module signing keys
136 - do not install the usrmount dracut module in hostonly mode,
137 if /sbin/init does not live in /usr
138 - add debian udev rule files
139 - add support for bcache
140 - network: handle bootif style interfaces
141 e.g. ip=77-77-6f-6f-64-73:dhcp
142 - add support for kmod static devnodes
143 - add vlan support for iBFT
156 - support new persistent network interface names
157 - fix findmnt calls, prevents hang on stale NFS mounts
158 - add systemd.slice and slice.target units
159 - major shell cleanup
160 - support root=PARTLABEL= and root=PARTUUID=
161 - terminfo: only install l/linux v/vt100 and v/vt220
162 - unset all LC_* and LANG, 10% faster
163 - fixed dependency loop for dracut-cmdline.service
164 - do not wait_for_dev for the root devices
165 - do not wait_for_dev for devices, if dracut-initqueue is not needed
166 - support early microcode loading with --early-microcode
167 - dmraid, let dmraid setup its own partitions
168 - sosreport renamed to rdsosreport
172 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
177 - wait for IPv6 autoconfiguration
178 - i18n: make the default font configurable
179 To set the default font for your distribution, add
180 i18n_default_font="latarcyrheb-sun16"
181 to your /lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf distribution config.
182 - proper handle "rd.break" in systemd mode before switch-root
183 - systemd: make unit files symlinks
184 - build without dash requirement
185 - add dracut-shutdown.service.8 manpage
186 - handle MACs for "ip="
187 "ip=77-77-6f-6f-64-73:dhcp"
188 - don't explode when mixing BOOTIF and ip=
189 - 90lvm/module-setup.sh: redirect error message of lvs to /dev/null
198 - full integration of crypto devs in systemd logic
199 - support for bridge over team and vlan tagged team
200 - support multiple bonding interfaces
201 - new kernel command line param "rd.action_on_fail"
202 to control the emergency action
203 - support for bridge over a vlan tagged interface
204 - support for "iso-scan/filename" kernel parameter
205 - lsinitrd got some love and does not use "file" anymore
206 - fixed issue with noexec mounted tmp dirs
208 - dracut_install got some love
209 - fixed some /usr mounting problems
210 - ifcfg dracut module got some love and fixes
211 - default installed font is now latarcyrheb-sun16
212 - new parameters rd.live.dir and rd.live.squashimg
213 - lvm: add tools for thin provisioning
214 - also install non-hwcap libs
215 - setup correct system time and time zone in initrd
216 - s390: fixed cms setup
217 - add systemd-udevd persistent network interface naming
233 - dracut now has bash-completion
234 - require bash version 4
235 - systemd module now requires systemd >= 199
236 - dracut makes use of native systemd initrd units
237 - added hooks for new-kernel-pkg and kernel-install
238 - hostonly is now default for fedora
239 - comply with the BootLoaderSpec paths
240 http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec
241 - added rescue module
242 - host_fs_types is now a hashmap
243 - new dracut argument "--regenerate-all"
244 - new dracut argument "--noimageifnotneeded"
245 - new man page dracut.bootup
246 - install all host filesystem drivers
247 - use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to build dracut-install
251 - introduce /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/ drop-in directory
253 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/*.conf can be overwritten by the same
254 filenames in /etc/dracut.conf.d.
256 Packages should use /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d rather than
257 /etc/dracut.conf.d for drop-in configuration files.
259 /etc/dracut.conf and /etc/dracut.conf.d belong to the system administrator.
261 - uses systemd-198 native initrd units
262 - totally rely on the fstab-generator in systemd mode for block devices
263 - dracut systemd now uses dracut.target rather than basic.target
264 - dracut systemd services optimize themselves away
265 - fixed hostonly parameter generation
266 - turn off curl globbing (fixes IPv6)
267 - modify the udev rules on install and not runtime time
268 - enable initramfs building without kernel modules (fixed regression)
269 - in the initqueue/timeout,
270 reset the main loop counter, as we see new udev events or initqueue/work
271 - fixed udev rule installation
275 - do not strip signed kernel modules
276 - add sosreport script and generate /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt
277 - make short uuid specification for allow-discards work
278 - turn off RateLimit for the systemd journal
279 - fixed MAC address assignment
280 - add systemd checkisomd5 service
281 - splitout drm kernel modules from plymouth module
282 - add 'swapoff' to initramfs to fix shutdown/reboot
283 - add team device support
284 - add pre-shutdown hook
285 - kill all processes in shutdown and report remaining ones
286 - "--device" changed to "--add-device" and "add_device=" added for conf files
287 - add memory usage trace to different hook points
288 - cope with optional field #7 in /proc/self/mountinfo
289 - lots of small bugfixes
293 - new dracut option "--device"
294 - new dracut kernel command line options "rd.auto"
295 - new dracut kernel command line options "rd.noverifyssl"
296 - new dracut option "--kernel-cmdline" and "kernel_cmdline" option for default parameters
297 - fixes for systemd and crypto
298 - fix for kexec in shutdown, if not included in initramfs
299 - create the initramfs non-world readable
300 - prelink/preunlink in the initramfs
301 - strip binaries in the initramfs by default now
303 - various dracut-install fixes
307 - resume from hibernate fixes
308 - -N option for --no-hostonly
309 - support for systemd crypto handling
310 - new dracut module "crypt-loop"
311 - deprecate the old kernel command line options
313 - honor CFLAGS for dracut-install build
315 - / is mounted according to rootflags parameter but forced ro at first.
316 Later it is remounted according to /etc/fstab + rootflags parameter
318 - support for xfs / reiserfs separate journal device
319 - new "ro_mnt" option to force ro mount of / and /usr
320 - root on cifs support
321 - dracut-install: fixed issue for /var/tmp containing a symlink
322 - only lazy resolve with ldd, if the /var/tmp partition is not mounted with "noexec"
323 - i18n: fixed inclusion of "include" keymaps
327 - fixed host-only kernel module bug
331 - fixed systemd in the initramfs (requires systemd >= 187)
332 - dracut-install: massive speedup with /var on the same filesystem with COW copy
333 - dracut-install: moved to /usr/lib/dracut until it becomes a general purpose tool
334 - new options: "rd.usrmount.ro" and "rd.skipfsck"
336 - apply "ro" on the kernel command line also to /usr
337 - mount according to fstab, if neither "ro" or "rw" is specified
338 - skip fsck for xfs and btrfs. remount is enough
339 - give emergency_shell if /usr mount failed
340 - dracut now uses getopt:
341 * options can be position independent now!!
342 * we can now use --option=<arg>
343 - added option "--kver=<kernel-version>", and the image location can be omitted
344 # dracut --kver 3.5.0-0.rc7.git1.2.fc18.x86_64
345 - dracut.sh: for --include copy also the symbolic links
346 - man pages: lsinitrd and mkinitrd added
347 - network: We do not support renaming in the kernel namespace anymore (as udev does
348 that not anymore). So, if a user wants to use ifname, he has to rename
349 to a custom namespace. "eth[0-9]+" is not allowed anymore. !!!!!
350 - resume: moved the resume process to the initqueue.
351 This should prevent accidently mounting the root file system.
352 - testsuite: add support for: make V=1 TESTS="01 20 40" check
353 $ sudo make V=1 clean check
354 now runs the testsuite in verbose mode
356 $ sudo make TESTS="01 20 40" clean check
357 now only runs the 01, 20 and 40 tests.
361 - changed rd.dasd kernel parameter
362 - arm kernel modules added to kernel-modules
363 - make udevdir systemdutildir systemdsystemunitdir global vars
364 your distribution should ship those settings in
365 /etc/dracut.conf.d/01-distro.conf
366 see dracut.conf.d/fedora.conf.example
367 - kernel modules are now only handled with /sys/modules and modules.dep
369 - mdraid: wait for md devices to be clean, before shutdown
370 - ifup fixed for ipv6
371 - add PARTUUID as root=PARTUUID=<partition uuid> parameter
372 - fixed instmods() return code and set pipefail globally
373 - add 04watchdog dracut module
374 - dracut-shutdown.service: fixed ordering to be before shutdown.target
375 - make use of "ln -r" instead of shell functions, if new coreutils is installed
376 - network: support vlan tagged bonding
377 - new dracut module qemu and qemu-net to install all kernel driver
378 - fs-lib/fs-lib.sh: removed test mounting of btrfs and xfs
379 - no more "mknod" in the initramfs!!
380 - replaced all "tr" calls with "sed"
381 - speedup with lazy kernel module dependency resolving
382 - lots of speedup optimizations and last but not least
384 - new binary to significanlty speedup the installation process
385 - dracut-functions.sh makes use of it, if installed
390 - initqueue/online hook
391 - fixes for ifcfg write out
392 - rootfs-block: avoid remount when options don't change
393 - Debian multiarch support
394 - virtfs root filesystem support
395 - cope with systemd-udevd
396 - mount tmpfs with strictatime
397 - include all kernel/drivers/net/phy drivers
398 - add debug_on() and debug_off() functions
399 - add arguments for source_hook() and source_all()
401 - plymouth: get consoledev from /sys/class/tty/console/active
402 - experimental systemd dracut module for systemd in the initramfs
403 - install xhci-hcd kernel module
404 - dracut: new "--mount" option
405 - lsinitrd: new option --printsize
406 - ARM storage kernel modules added
407 - s390 cms conf file support
408 - /etc/initrd-release in the initrd
410 - full bonding and bridge support
411 - removed scsi_wait_scan kernel module from standard install
412 - support rd.luks.allow-discards and honor options in crypttab
417 - lvm: ignore lvm mirrors
418 - lsinitrd: handle LZMA images
419 - iscsi: add rd.iscsi.param
420 - iscsi: add iscsi interface binding
421 - new module cms to read and handle z-Series cms config files
422 - fixed fstab.sys handling
423 - new dracut option "--tmpdir"
424 - new dracut option "--no-hostonly"
425 - nbd: name based nbd connects
426 - converted manpage and documentation source to asciidoc
427 - write-ifcfg fixes and cleanups
428 - ifup is now done in the initqueue
430 - initqueue/online is now for hooks, which require network
431 - no more /tmp/root.info
432 - 98pollcdrom: factored out the ugly cdrom polling in the main loop
433 - simplified rd.luks.uuid testing
434 - removed "egrep" and "ls" calls
435 - speedup kernel module installation
436 - make bzip2 optional
441 - a _lot_ faster than dracut-016 in image creation
442 - systemd service dracut-shutdown.service
444 - ssh-client module install fix
445 - root=iscsi:... fixed
446 - lots of restructuring and optimizing in dracut-functions.sh
447 - usrmount: honor fs_passno in /etc/fstab
448 - renamed all shell scripts to .sh
449 - new option "--omit-drivers" and config option "omit_drivers"
450 - hostonly mode fixups
455 - honor binaries in sbin first
456 - fixed usrmount module
457 - added systemd service for shutdown
458 - fixed terminfo on distros with /usr/share/terminfo
459 - reload udev rules after "pre-trigger" hook
460 - improved test suite
461 - new parameter "--omit-drivers" and new conf param omit_drivers
462 - "--offroot" support for mdraid
463 - new libs: net-lib.sh, nfs-lib.sh, url-lib.sh, img-lib.sh
464 full of functions to use in your dracut module
468 - hostonly mode automatically adds command line options for root and /usr
469 - --add-fstab --mount parameters
471 - --ctty option: add job control
472 - cleanup /run/initramfs
474 - /sbin/ifup can be called directly
475 - support kernel modules compressed with xz
476 - s390 iscsi modules added
478 - lsinitrd can handle concatened images
479 - lsinitrd can sort by size
483 - new dracut arguments:
492 - new kernel options:
496 - dracut move from /sbin to /usr/bin
497 - dracut modules dir moved from /usr/share/dracut to /usr/lib/dracut
498 - profiling with "dracut --profile"
499 - new TEST-16-DMSQUASH, test for Fedora LiveCDs
500 - speedup of initramfs creation
501 - ask_for_password fallback to CLI
502 - mdraid completely switched to incremental assembly
503 - no more cdrom polling
504 - "switch_root" breakpoint is now very late
507 - fs-lib dracut module for fscks added
508 - xen dracut module removed
509 - usb mass storage kernel drivers now included
510 - usrmount dracut module added:
511 mount /usr if found in /sysroot/etc/fstab
512 - only include fsck helper needed for hostonly
513 - fcoe: support for bnx2fc
514 - support iSCSI drivers: qla4xxx, cxgb3i, cxgb4i, bnx2i, be2iscsi
515 - fips-aesni dracut module added
516 - add install_items to dracut.conf
517 install_items+=" <file>[ <file> ...] "
518 - speedup internal testsuite
519 - internal testsuite: store temporary data in a temporary dir
523 - speedup of initramfs creation
524 - fixed inst_dir for symbolic links
525 - add unix kernel module
529 - better fsck handling
530 - fixed wait condition for LVM volumes
531 - fix for hardlinks (welcome Debian! :-)
533 - automatic busybox symlink creation
534 - try to mount /usr, if init points to a path in /usr
535 - btrfs with multiple devices
536 - "--force-add" option for dracut, to force-add dracut modules,
537 without hostonly checks
538 - lsinitrd also display the initramfs size in human readable form
539 - livenet module, to mount live-isos over http
540 - masterkey,ecryptfs,integrity security modules
541 - initqueue/timeout queue e.g. for starting degraded raids
542 - "make rpm" creates an rpm with an increasing release number from any
544 - support lvm mirrors
545 - start degraded lvm mirrors after a timeout
546 - start degraded md raids after a timeout
547 - getarg() now returns wildcards without file matching to the current fs
552 - use udev-168 features for shutting down udev
553 - introduce "--prefix" to put all initramfs files in e.g "/run/initramfs"
554 - new shutdown script (called by systemd >= 030) to disassemble the root device
556 - new module for gpg-encrypted keys - 91crypt-gpg
561 - plymouth: use /run/plymouth/pid instead of /run/initramfs/plymouth
562 - add "/lib/firmware/updates" to default firmware path
569 - better argument handling
572 - hooks moved to /lib/dracut/hooks in initramfs
573 - rd.driver.{blacklist|pre|post} accept comma separated driver list
574 - iSCSI: iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) support
576 - live image: support for generic rootfs.img (instead of ext3fs.img)
582 - removed --ignore-kernel-modules option (no longer necessary)
583 - renamed kernel command line arguments to follow the rd. naming scheme
584 - merged check, install, installkernel to module-setup.sh
585 - support for bzip2 and xz compressed initramfs images.
586 - source code beautification
587 - lots of documentation
588 - lsinitrd: "catinitrd" functionality
589 - dracut: --list-modules
590 - lvm: support for dynamic LVM SNAPSHOT root volume
591 - 95fstab-sys: mount all /etc/fstab.sys volumes before switch_root
592 - 96insmodpost dracut module
593 - rd.shell=1 per default
594 - rootfs-block:mount-root.sh add fsck
595 - busybox shell replacements module
596 - honor old "real_init="
597 - 97biosdevname dracut module
601 - module i18n is no longer fedora/red hat specific (Amadeusz Żołnowski)
602 - distribution specific conf file
604 - debug module now has fsck
605 - use "hardlink", if available, to save some space
606 - /etc/dracut.conf can be overwritten by settings in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf
607 - gentoo splash module
608 - --ignore-kernel-modules option
609 - crypto keys on external devices support
614 - fixed mdraid with IMSM
615 - fixed dracut manpages
616 - dmraid parse different error messages
617 - add cdrom polling mechanism for slow cdroms
619 - add btrfsctl scan for btrfs multi-devices (raid)
620 - teach dmsquash live-root to use rootflags
621 - trigger udev with action=add
622 - fixed add_drivers handling
624 - use pigz instead of gzip, if available
625 - boot from LVM mirrors and snapshots
626 - iscsi: add support for multiple netroot=iscsi:
627 - Support old version of module-init-tools
628 - got rid of rdnetdebug
630 - dracut.conf: use "+=" as default for config variables
635 - dcb support to dracut's FCoE support
636 - add readonly overlay support for dmsquash
637 - add keyboard kernel modules
638 - dracut.conf: added add_dracutmodules
639 - add /etc/dracut.conf.d
640 - add preliminary IPv6 support
645 - dracut-lib: read multiple lines from $init/etc/cmdline
646 - lsinitrd and mkinitrd
647 - dmsquash: add support for loopmounted *.iso files
648 - lvm: add rd_LVM_LV and "--poll n"
649 - user suspend support
650 - add additional drivers in host-only mode, too
651 - improved emergency shell
652 - support for compressed kernel modules
653 - support for loading Xen modules
654 - rdloaddriver kernel command line parameter
655 - man pages for dracut-catimages and dracut-gencmdline
660 - add debian package modules
661 - add dracut.conf manpage
662 - add module 90multipath
664 - crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there)
665 unless rd_NO_CRYPTTAB is specified
666 - kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc
667 - add multinic support
668 - add s390 zfcp support
669 - add s390 dasd support
670 - add s390 network support
671 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
672 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
674 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
675 - moved network from udev to initqueue
676 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
677 to dmesg, console and /init.log
678 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
679 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
680 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
681 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
682 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
683 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
685 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
686 - preserve timestamps of tools on initramfs generation
687 - generate symlinks for binaries correctly
688 - moved network from udev to initqueue
689 - mount nfs3 with nfsvers=3 option and retry with nfsvers=2
690 - fixed nbd initqueue-finished
691 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
692 to dmesg, console and /init.log
693 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
694 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
695 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
696 - make install of new dm/lvm udev rules optionally
697 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
698 - Fix LiveCD boot regression
699 - bail out if selinux policy could not be loaded and
700 selinux=0 not specified on kernel command line
701 - do not cleanup dmraids
706 - add ifname= argument for persistent netdev names
707 - new /initqueue-finished to check if the main loop can be left
708 - copy mdadm.conf if --mdadmconf set or mdadmconf in dracut.conf
709 - plymouth: use plymouth-populate-initrd
710 - add add_drivers for dracut and dracut.conf
711 - add modprobe scsi_wait_scan to be sure everything was scanned
712 - fix for several problems with md raid containers
713 - fix for selinux policy loading
714 - fix for mdraid for IMSM
715 - fix for bug, which prevents installing 61-persistent-storage.rules (bug #520109)
716 - fix for missing grep for md
720 - better --hostonly checks
721 - better lvm/mdraid/dmraid handling
722 - fcoe booting support
723 Supported cmdline formats:
724 fcoe=<networkdevice>:<dcb|nodcb>
725 fcoe=<macaddress>:<dcb|nodcb>
727 Note currently only nodcb is supported, the dcb option is reserved for
730 Note letters in the macaddress must be lowercase!
734 fcoe=4A:3F:4C:04:F8:D7:nodcb
736 - Syslog support for dracut
737 This module provides syslog functionality in the initrd.
738 This is especially interesting when complex configuration being
739 used to provide access to the device the rootfs resides on.
744 - let plymouth attach to the terminal (nice text output now)
745 - new kernel command line parameter "rdinfo" show dracut output, even when
747 - rd_LUKS_UUID is now handled correctly
748 - dracut-gencmdline: rd_LUKS_UUID and rd_MD_UUID is now correctly generated
749 - now generates initrd-generic with around 15MB
754 - iSCSI with username and password
755 - support for live images (dmsquashed live images)
756 - iscsi_firmware fixes
762 - dracut: strip binaries in initramfs
765 strip binaries in the initramfs (default)
768 do not strip binaries in the initramfs
771 Usage: ./dracut-catimages [OPTION]... <initramfs> <base image>
773 Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the
775 line and /boot/dracut/
777 -f, --force Overwrite existing initramfs file.
778 -i, --imagedir Directory with additional images to add
779 (default: /boot/dracut/)
780 -o, --overlaydir Overlay directory, which contains files that
781 will be used to create an additional image
782 --nooverlay Do not use the overlay directory
783 --noimagedir Do not use the additional image directory
784 -h, --help This message
785 --debug Output debug information of the build process
786 -v, --verbose Verbose output during the build process
792 - dracut: add --kernel-only and --no-kernel arguments
795 only install kernel drivers and firmware files
798 do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
800 All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
803 For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
804 modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
805 which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
807 The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
808 modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
809 to replace one image.
811 Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
814 title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
816 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
817 initrd /initrd-20090722.img /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img /initrd-config.img
820 the image provided by the initrd rpm
821 one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
823 initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
824 the image provided by the kernel rpm
827 optional image with local configuration files
829 - dracut: add --kmoddir directory, where to look for kernel modules
832 specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules
838 - more generic (all plymouth modules, all keyboards, all console fonts)
839 - more kernel command line parameters (see also man dracut(8))
840 - a helper tool, which generates the kernel command line (dracut-gencmdline)
841 - bridged network boot
842 - a lot of new command line parameter
847 - firmware loading support
848 - new internal queue (initqueue)
849 initqueue now loops until /dev/root exists or root is mounted
851 init now has the following points to inject scripts:
854 scripts for command line parsing
857 scripts to run before udev is started
860 scripts to run before the main udev trigger is pulled
863 runs in parallel to the udev trigger
864 Udev events can add scripts here with /sbin/initqueue.
865 If /sbin/initqueue is called with the "--onetime" option, the script
866 will be removed after it was run.
867 If /initqueue/work is created and udev >= 143 then this loop can
868 process the jobs in parallel to the udevtrigger.
869 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
870 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
872 Scripts can remove themselves from the initqueue by "rm $job".
875 scripts to run before the root filesystem is mounted
876 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
877 and mounts in the udev events
880 scripts to mount the root filesystem
881 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
882 and mounts in the udev events
883 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
884 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
888 scripts to run before the real init is executed and the initramfs
890 All processes started before should be killed here.
892 The behaviour of the dmraid module demonstrates how to use the new
893 mechanism. If it detects a device which is part of a raidmember from a
894 udev rule, it installs a job to scan for dmraid devices, if the udev
895 queue is empty. After a scan, it removes itsself from the queue.
902 - first public version