On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: [..] > >> I will add /etc/cmdline.d/ as a drop in for configs. This can also be used > >> easily for combined initramfs images. > > > > Harald, > > > > We need something so that we can specify top level block device/uuid/label > > on either commandline or through /etc/cmdline.d/*.config and then dracut > > automatically figures out all the dependencies and packs all the relevant > > modules. > > > > For example, one might say in kdump.conf that save the dump to a file > > system with UUID=xyz. Now one needs to figure out underlying devices, > > traverse through device stack, bring up associated networking and > > traverse through networking stack. > > > > I see in dracut seems to look for root device, and traverses through > > block device stack and every modules packs its relevant files if > > that type of device is found in stack. > > > > So something like "extra_mount=dev/uuid/label" kind of command line > > will help where one can specify extra mount targets which are mounted. > > > > Thanks > > Vivek > > dracut only does this in hostonly mode... I guess, you will need hostonly, too, > to reduce the site of the initramfs. Yes, we want to operate in host only mode (-H) as we want to build minimal initramfs which is sufficient to take dump on that system for a specific dump target. Thanks Vivek -- 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
