3 - fixed mdraid with IMSM
4 - fixed dracut manpages
5 - dmraid parse different error messages
6 - add cdrom polling mechanism for slow cdroms
8 - add btrfsctl scan for btrfs multi-devices (raid)
9 - teach dmsquash live-root to use rootflags
10 - trigger udev with action=add
11 - fixed add_drivers handling
13 - use pigz instead of gzip, if available
17 - dcb support to dracut's FCoE support
18 - add readonly overlay support for dmsquash
19 - add keyboard kernel modules
20 - dracut.conf: added add_dracutmodules
21 - add /etc/dracut.conf.d
22 - add preliminary IPv6 support
28 - dracut-lib: read multiple lines from $init/etc/cmdline
29 - lsinitrd and mkinitrd
30 - dmsquash: add support for loopmounted *.iso files
31 - lvm: add rd_LVM_LV and "--poll n"
32 - user suspend support
33 - add additional drivers in host-only mode, too
34 - improved emergency shell
35 - support for compressed kernel modules
36 - support for loading Xen modules
37 - rdloaddriver kernel command line parameter
38 - man pages for dracut-catimages and dracut-gencmdline
43 - add debian package modules
44 - add dracut.conf manpage
45 - add module 90multipath
47 - crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there)
48 unless rd_NO_CRYPTTAB is specified
49 - kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc
50 - add multinic support
51 - add s390 zfcp support
52 - add s390 dasd support
53 - add s390 network support
54 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
55 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
57 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
58 - moved network from udev to initqueue
59 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
60 to dmesg, console and /init.log
61 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
62 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
63 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
64 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
65 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
66 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
68 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
69 - preserve timestamps of tools on initramfs generation
70 - generate symlinks for binaries correctly
71 - moved network from udev to initqueue
72 - mount nfs3 with nfsvers=3 option and retry with nfsvers=2
73 - fixed nbd initqueue-finished
74 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
75 to dmesg, console and /init.log
76 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
77 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
78 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
79 - make install of new dm/lvm udev rules optionally
80 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
81 - Fix LiveCD boot regression
82 - bail out if selinux policy could not be loaded and
83 selinux=0 not specified on kernel command line
84 - do not cleanup dmraids
89 - add ifname= argument for persistent netdev names
90 - new /initqueue-finished to check if the main loop can be left
91 - copy mdadm.conf if --mdadmconf set or mdadmconf in dracut.conf
92 - plymouth: use plymouth-populate-initrd
93 - add add_drivers for dracut and dracut.conf
94 - add modprobe scsi_wait_scan to be sure everything was scanned
95 - fix for several problems with md raid containers
96 - fix for selinux policy loading
97 - fix for mdraid for IMSM
98 - fix for bug, which prevents installing 61-persistent-storage.rules (bug #520109)
99 - fix for missing grep for md
103 - better --hostonly checks
104 - better lvm/mdraid/dmraid handling
105 - fcoe booting support
106 Supported cmdline formats:
107 fcoe=<networkdevice>:<dcb|nodcb>
108 fcoe=<macaddress>:<dcb|nodcb>
110 Note currently only nodcb is supported, the dcb option is reserved for
113 Note letters in the macaddress must be lowercase!
117 fcoe=4A:3F:4C:04:F8:D7:nodcb
119 - Syslog support for dracut
120 This module provides syslog functionality in the initrd.
121 This is especially interesting when complex configuration being
122 used to provide access to the device the rootfs resides on.
127 - let plymouth attach to the terminal (nice text output now)
128 - new kernel command line parameter "rdinfo" show dracut output, even when
130 - rd_LUKS_UUID is now handled correctly
131 - dracut-gencmdline: rd_LUKS_UUID and rd_MD_UUID is now correctly generated
132 - now generates initrd-generic with around 15MB
137 - iSCSI with username and password
138 - support for live images (dmsquashed live images)
139 - iscsi_firmware fixes
145 - dracut: strip binaries in initramfs
148 strip binaries in the initramfs (default)
151 do not strip binaries in the initramfs
154 Usage: ./dracut-catimages [OPTION]... <initramfs> <base image>
156 Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the
158 line and /boot/dracut/
160 -f, --force Overwrite existing initramfs file.
161 -i, --imagedir Directory with additional images to add
162 (default: /boot/dracut/)
163 -o, --overlaydir Overlay directory, which contains files that
164 will be used to create an additional image
165 --nooverlay Do not use the overlay directory
166 --noimagedir Do not use the additional image directory
167 -h, --help This message
168 --debug Output debug information of the build process
169 -v, --verbose Verbose output during the build process
175 - dracut: add --kernel-only and --no-kernel arguments
178 only install kernel drivers and firmware files
181 do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
183 All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
186 For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
187 modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
188 which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
190 The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
191 modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
192 to replace one image.
194 Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
197 title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
199 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
200 initrd /initrd-20090722.img /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img /initrd-config.img
203 the image provided by the initrd rpm
204 one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
206 initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
207 the image provided by the kernel rpm
210 optional image with local configuration files
212 - dracut: add --kmoddir directory, where to look for kernel modules
215 specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules
221 - more generic (all plymouth modules, all keyboards, all console fonts)
222 - more kernel command line parameters (see also man dracut(8))
223 - a helper tool, which generates the kernel command line (dracut-gencmdline)
224 - bridged network boot
225 - a lot of new command line parameter
230 - firmware loading support
231 - new internal queue (initqueue)
232 initqueue now loops until /dev/root exists or root is mounted
234 init now has the following points to inject scripts:
237 scripts for command line parsing
240 scripts to run before udev is started
243 scripts to run before the main udev trigger is pulled
246 runs in parallel to the udev trigger
247 Udev events can add scripts here with /sbin/initqueue.
248 If /sbin/initqueue is called with the "--onetime" option, the script
249 will be removed after it was run.
250 If /initqueue/work is created and udev >= 143 then this loop can
251 process the jobs in parallel to the udevtrigger.
252 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
253 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
255 Scripts can remove themselves from the initqueue by "rm $job".
258 scripts to run before the root filesystem is mounted
259 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
260 and mounts in the udev events
263 scripts to mount the root filesystem
264 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
265 and mounts in the udev events
266 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
267 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
271 scripts to run before the real init is executed and the initramfs
273 All processes started before should be killed here.
275 The behaviour of the dmraid module demonstrates how to use the new
276 mechanism. If it detects a device which is part of a raidmember from a
277 udev rule, it installs a job to scan for dmraid devices, if the udev
278 queue is empty. After a scan, it removes itsself from the queue.
285 - first public version