--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 /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
initrd /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
First, add a check script to 99base to ensure that it will load its
prerequisites.
Second, disable the udev magic dracut normally uses when generating
test images -- it was causing random failures when creating the test
root filesystem, presumably due to race conditions between the
rootfs creation scripts and udev.
Third, consolidate the rootfs creation scripts into one script.
All modules now live in a subdirectory /modules.d. Each module is
self-contained -- it should contain everything that it will install
on the initrd. All modules must include a script named install, which
will be sourced by dracut. This script should do the actual file installation
using inst methods. The moddir variable will point to the full path to the
module dracut is currently working on.
As usual, this patch series applies on top of my previous patch series,
and is available as normalize-modules from http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut.
Harald Hoyer