[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

[Harald Hoyer]

On 07/02/2009 03:07 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 07/02/2009 12:59 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Here it is, dracut-0.3!
>>
>> Featuring booting from all kind of block devices, NFS, iSCSI and NBD.
>>
>> Dracut is a new initramfs infrastructure. It should replace
>> nash/mkinitrd.
>> Dracut is a feauture for Fedora 12
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Further information about dracut:
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dracut/wiki
>>
>
>
> 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>
>

Oh, and here are the Fedora 11 rpms

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=112659