On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:11 -0400
James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> It is worth noting that dracut will impact *every* Fedora 12 user (and
> potentially users of other distros). As a result, there are several
> ways to get involved with testing, ranging from basic to more
> advanced:
>
> 2. Update your existing Fedora 11 (or Fedora 12 Alpha) system(s)
> to use dracut, and reboot
Just for fun I installed dracut on my F11 x86_64 system. Then I read
web documents until I had some idea of what it was doing.
I created an initramfs in boot from the currently running kernel.
dracut -v --debug -H test_dracut-initramfs.cpio.gz
When it came time to use my shiny new initramfs, the option I wanted
seemed to be dracut-gencmdline. So I ran it. And it wasn't found. I
went to this link and it seems to imply it should
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#Dracut-gencmdline
Eventually, I realized there was more than the dracut package, and
installed all of the dracut packages.
A little more reading said that I could just use a regular kernel line
in /boot/grub/menu.lst. So I used this stanza to boot:
title Fedora (2.6.30.5-32.20090821.fc11.x86_64.dracut)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-32.20090821.fc11.x86_64
root=UUID=c94b5547-e098-45ca-8776-cce0e0cd6bac vga=0x318 init=/sbin/bootchartd
initrd /test_dracut-initramfs.cpio.gz
However, a reboot eventually arrived at a screen telling me it couldn't
find the root device and it was going to sleep forever.
What did I miss?
Linked right from the Test Day page :)
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Adam Williamson
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