dracut-0.9

dracut-0.9
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- let plymouth attach to the terminal (nice text output now)
- new kernel command line parameter "rdinfo" show dracut output, even when "quiet" is specified
- rd_LUKS_UUID is now handled correctly
- dracut-gencmdline: rd_LUKS_UUID and rd_MD_UUID is now correctly generated
- now generates initrd-generic with around 15MB
- smaller bugfixes

dracut-0.8
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- iSCSI with username and password
- support for live images (dmsquashed live images)
- iscsi_firmware fixes
- smaller images
- bugfixes

dracut-0.7
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- dracut: strip binaries in initramfs

--strip
strip binaries in the initramfs (default)

--nostrip
do not strip binaries in the initramfs
- dracut-catimages

Usage: ./dracut-catimages [OPTION]... <initramfs> <base image> [<image>...]
Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command
line and /boot/dracut/

-f, --force Overwrite existing initramfs file.
-i, --imagedir Directory with additional images to add
(default: /boot/dracut/)
-o, --overlaydir Overlay directory, which contains files that
will be used to create an additional image
--nooverlay Do not use the overlay directory
--noimagedir Do not use the additional image directory
-h, --help This message
--debug Output debug information of the build process
-v, --verbose Verbose output during the build process

- s390 dasd support

dracut-0.6
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- dracut: add --kernel-only and --no-kernel arguments

--kernel-only
only install kernel drivers and firmware files

--no-kernel
do not install kernel drivers and firmware files

All kernel module related install commands moved from "install" to "installkernel".

For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.

The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have to replace one image.

Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can look like this:

title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-20090722.img
/initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img /initrd-config.img

initrd-20090722.img
the image provided by the initrd rpm
one old backup version is kept like with the kernel

initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
the image provided by the kernel rpm

initrd-config.img
optional image with local configuration files

- dracut: add --kmoddir directory, where to look for kernel modules

-k, --kmoddir [DIR]
specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules

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