Current dracut network only will be setup when netroot is used. But there are
some cases we need network even without netroot. For example kdump will need
copy vmcore to remote machine via scp or nfs mount. OTOH, if we use dracut as
a recovery system the network is helpful even root is not a network device.
This implementation is based on the manually bring up method. Here add a kernel
cmdline argument rd.neednet. If rd.neednet is set dracut will bring up network
with ifup $INTERFACE -m. If netroot is used we still keep original behavior.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Option --ctty will optionally add setsid binary to dracut's image.
During runtime, if rd.ctty is set and is a character device,
emergency shells will be spawned with job control.
in case no ctty was provided, shell was spawned without caring about
/dev/console. Also, the ctty is more opportunistic. If the image was
generated with --ctty, we will fallback to /dev/tty1 if rc.ctty is
invalid or missing. Otherwise we spawn standard shell on /dev/console
[dyoung@redhat.com: Rebased to usrmove branch]
Signed-off-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
While the documentation states that ifname MAC addresses must be
lower case, we silently accept upper case ones and fail later on
when udev doesn't rename the device.
Instead of adding sanity checking on the MAC address just convert
it to lower case and remove the requirement completely.
Dave Young