Hi, when trying to create a initramfs for a diskless client with dracut like dracut -f initrd.diskless --kver=blabla--add nfs --add disklessmount --kernel-cmdline "ip=eth0:dhcp root=nfs:<some ip>:/" dracut will include a lot of references to the swap device of the host where we execute this command. The /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-<uuid> will cause the diskless client to hang waiting for this device to show up. The hard encoded swap device makes it impossible to create a initrd for a host other than the one it is created on. The only workaround is to comment out the line for the swap device in /etc/fstab, create the initramfs and uncomment the line again. Not a good solution, though, as we usually create the initrds automatically in %post sections of kernel rpms and I don't want a script to mess around with the fstab. As was proposed in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/4111/focus=4112 there really should be a way to tweak the swap handling or at least to disable it completely. I don't understand why I need a running swap in the initramfs anyway, but if you see any interesting cases for this, please let me choose if I want it or not by default! For all our hosts it would be ok if swap was only activated after chroot to /sysroot, and all the "I cannot boot after I deleted/changed my swap space" posts you find googling seem to indicate that many people could benefit from an easy way to disable swap in dracut. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- 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
