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Hello everyone, |
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The past week I spend on integrating Dracut with Genkernel and |
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eventually manged that [0][1]. How's it done? I've created additional |
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script (gen_dracut.sh) which is sourced conditionally. My initial idea |
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(discussed with Andrew Gaffney) was to simply replace the body of |
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create_initramfs in gen_initramfs.sh with dracut evaluation, but |
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recently I've got idea to leave existing generation tool and give to |
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user choice to not use dracut engine but the internal one. It's better |
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since it's less intrusive and if dracut fails for some reason there's |
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easy rescue. |
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How can one use Genkernel with Dracut? (And here comes what's not yet |
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done… – docs) Just the same as before to generate initramfs, but |
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difference is in kernel arguments. In most cases no arguments are |
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needed. Most of things are handled automatically with udev magic. For |
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details there's man 8 dracut. If you'd like to use it ASAP, just |
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checkout my repo (branch: gsoc2010) and run it like here: |
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sudo ./genkernel --local --lvm initramfs |
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Moreover I was trying to organize Plymouth maintenance. Contacted with |
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several people and there's a chance for it to be put into Portage tree. |
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Or… maybe You are a developer willing to handle it? |
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And thinking of splash stuff… for now I've used Plymouth, but I guess |
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I'd have to write some module for Dracut supporting old splash for |
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people who don't like new trendy eye-candy and unnecessarily animating |
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stuff… ;-) |
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There's also updated dracut ebuild (see bug #329003 [2]). If we're |
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around the Dracut itself, unfortunately there's RHEL6 release coming |
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and that's why there's no time for my latest patches to be merged into |
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mainline by Harald. Hope the phase will pass quickly and then my |
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patches will come into. |
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References: |
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* [0] my fork: http://github.com/aidecoe/genkernel/tree/gsoc2010 |
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* [1] single patch: http://wklej.org/hash/69a5df3848/ |
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* [2] dracut-006-r1.ebuild (bug #329003): |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329003 |
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Cheers, |
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Amadeusz Żołnowski |
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