Am 01.08.2012 18:05, schrieb Vinay Venkataraghavan: > Hi all, > > I have a few questions regarding building a new initrd which adds additional modules to the existing initrd. > > The environment that I am working in is as follows: > > 1. that anaconda has completed the install and I prevent the system from rebooting. > > 2. Anaconda has installed the OS to an iscsi disk. > > > What I'd like to do now is to add the dracut-network and iscsi modules to the initrd so that when the system reboots it will be able to connect to the remote iscsi target and mount the root device. > > I have been working through this for about three weeks now and am stuck at the phase where I can rebuild the initrd with the network modules and iscsi modules. > > > The installed system contains all the dependency rpms such as: dracut, dracut-kernel, dracut-network, and iscsi-initiator-utils. > > While in the anaconda shell I tried the following command: > > dracut -v -a iscsi -m network new_initrd.img `uname -r` > > Executing this command has two problems: > > 1. The network option is invalid. I'm wondering if this should be -m dracut-network?? > > 2. This does not add modules to the existing image. But it creates a very minimal initrd. > > > What I would like is to add the network boot modules to boot from an iscsi root device to the existing initrd. > > > I would appreciate any help in this matter. Please let me know if I can furnish any further information. > > Thanks in advance. > - Vinay "-m network" is wrong, because all the other modules are not used then. You will end up only with "network" + "iscsi". Why don't you just use: # dracut new_initrd.img or, if you find that too big, just omit the modules, you don't need. # dracut --omit "nbd nfs multipath" new_initrd.img -- 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
