Hi Harold, Using Japanese ja_JP.UTF-8 environment, the characters in load selinux policy message are garbled. This simple patch mainly adds force LANG=C to selinux load policy. Kind regards, Haruo. --- dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh.orig 2011-05-31 14:36:34.000000000 +0900 +++ dracut-010/modules.d/98selinux/selinux-loadpolicy.sh 2011-05-31 14:38:44.000000000 +0900 @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ # FIXME: load selinux policy. this should really be done after we switchroot +# We can't Japanese on normal console at boot time, so force LANG=C. +if [ "$LANG" = "ja_JP.UTF-8" ]; then + LANG=C +fi + rd_load_policy() { # If SELinux is disabled exit now-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html