Where to report initrd-generic problems?

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Sat Aug 22 22:29:18 UTC 2009


On Saturday 22 August 2009 05:13:00 pm John5342 wrote:
> 2009/8/22 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 23:22:19 +0200,
> >
> >  drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mike Chambers<mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 16:15 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >> >> The initrd-generic file I get when installing new kernels in rawhide
> >> >> doesn't work (raid devices don't get named as expected causing the
> >> >> boot to fail), but running mkinitrd myself produces initrd files that
> >> >> work. What component should I report this against?
> >> >
> >> > First guess is mkinitrd.  They can change it accordingly if it's
> >> > wrong.
> >>
> >> The generic initrd is created by dracut.
> >
> > Which is weird because the dracut package didn't get installed on the
> > system even though I did a fresh install during the alpha freeze.
>
> If i understand correctly the initrd-generic is precreated by dracut
> into another rpm which means dracut is not needed on the system. I
> have raised my doubts over this method before on the list for exactly
> this kind of reason but my comments were ignored :(
dracut is in the kernel buildroot.  the initrd is created when the kernel is 
compiled.

Dennis
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