On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:12 -0700, stan wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:11 -0400 > James Laska <jlaska@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Dracut_switch_to_host-built_ramdisk Linked right from the Test Day page :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
