https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515630
dracut-0.7-1 uses a modprobe option (-d) that exists only in
module-init-tools >= 3.7-9, but the 'Requires: module-init-tools'
of dracut is not version-specific.
--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
This supercedes my previous switch_root patches, and applies on top of davej's
repo at git.kernel.org.
Nash is gone. In its place we have a reasonable switch_root implementation.
Of course, this switch_root is written in some rather hideous shell script,
and relies on some rather dodgy hacks. Rewriting in C would help things out.
However, it should be distro-independent, and it gets the job done.
Harald Hoyer