3 - fixed mdraid with IMSM
4 - fixed dracut manpages
5 - dmraid parse different error messages
6 - add cdrom polling mechanism for slow cdroms
8 - add btrfsctl scan for btrfs multi-devices (raid)
9 - teach dmsquash live-root to use rootflags
10 - trigger udev with action=add
11 - fixed add_drivers handling
13 - use pigz instead of gzip, if available
14 - boot from LVM mirrors and snapshots
15 - iscsi: add support for multiple netroot=iscsi:
16 - Support old version of module-init-tools
17 - got rid of rdnetdebug
19 - dracut.conf: use "+=" as default for config variables
24 - dcb support to dracut's FCoE support
25 - add readonly overlay support for dmsquash
26 - add keyboard kernel modules
27 - dracut.conf: added add_dracutmodules
28 - add /etc/dracut.conf.d
29 - add preliminary IPv6 support
34 - dracut-lib: read multiple lines from $init/etc/cmdline
35 - lsinitrd and mkinitrd
36 - dmsquash: add support for loopmounted *.iso files
37 - lvm: add rd_LVM_LV and "--poll n"
38 - user suspend support
39 - add additional drivers in host-only mode, too
40 - improved emergency shell
41 - support for compressed kernel modules
42 - support for loading Xen modules
43 - rdloaddriver kernel command line parameter
44 - man pages for dracut-catimages and dracut-gencmdline
49 - add debian package modules
50 - add dracut.conf manpage
51 - add module 90multipath
53 - crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there)
54 unless rd_NO_CRYPTTAB is specified
55 - kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc
56 - add multinic support
57 - add s390 zfcp support
58 - add s390 dasd support
59 - add s390 network support
60 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
61 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
63 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
64 - moved network from udev to initqueue
65 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
66 to dmesg, console and /init.log
67 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
68 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
69 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
70 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
71 - fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
72 - do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
74 - let udevd not resolve group and user names
75 - preserve timestamps of tools on initramfs generation
76 - generate symlinks for binaries correctly
77 - moved network from udev to initqueue
78 - mount nfs3 with nfsvers=3 option and retry with nfsvers=2
79 - fixed nbd initqueue-finished
80 - improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs
81 to dmesg, console and /init.log
82 - strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
83 - redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console
84 so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
85 - make install of new dm/lvm udev rules optionally
86 - add new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
87 - Fix LiveCD boot regression
88 - bail out if selinux policy could not be loaded and
89 selinux=0 not specified on kernel command line
90 - do not cleanup dmraids
95 - add ifname= argument for persistent netdev names
96 - new /initqueue-finished to check if the main loop can be left
97 - copy mdadm.conf if --mdadmconf set or mdadmconf in dracut.conf
98 - plymouth: use plymouth-populate-initrd
99 - add add_drivers for dracut and dracut.conf
100 - add modprobe scsi_wait_scan to be sure everything was scanned
101 - fix for several problems with md raid containers
102 - fix for selinux policy loading
103 - fix for mdraid for IMSM
104 - fix for bug, which prevents installing 61-persistent-storage.rules (bug #520109)
105 - fix for missing grep for md
109 - better --hostonly checks
110 - better lvm/mdraid/dmraid handling
111 - fcoe booting support
112 Supported cmdline formats:
113 fcoe=<networkdevice>:<dcb|nodcb>
114 fcoe=<macaddress>:<dcb|nodcb>
116 Note currently only nodcb is supported, the dcb option is reserved for
119 Note letters in the macaddress must be lowercase!
123 fcoe=4A:3F:4C:04:F8:D7:nodcb
125 - Syslog support for dracut
126 This module provides syslog functionality in the initrd.
127 This is especially interesting when complex configuration being
128 used to provide access to the device the rootfs resides on.
133 - let plymouth attach to the terminal (nice text output now)
134 - new kernel command line parameter "rdinfo" show dracut output, even when
136 - rd_LUKS_UUID is now handled correctly
137 - dracut-gencmdline: rd_LUKS_UUID and rd_MD_UUID is now correctly generated
138 - now generates initrd-generic with around 15MB
143 - iSCSI with username and password
144 - support for live images (dmsquashed live images)
145 - iscsi_firmware fixes
151 - dracut: strip binaries in initramfs
154 strip binaries in the initramfs (default)
157 do not strip binaries in the initramfs
160 Usage: ./dracut-catimages [OPTION]... <initramfs> <base image>
162 Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the
164 line and /boot/dracut/
166 -f, --force Overwrite existing initramfs file.
167 -i, --imagedir Directory with additional images to add
168 (default: /boot/dracut/)
169 -o, --overlaydir Overlay directory, which contains files that
170 will be used to create an additional image
171 --nooverlay Do not use the overlay directory
172 --noimagedir Do not use the additional image directory
173 -h, --help This message
174 --debug Output debug information of the build process
175 -v, --verbose Verbose output during the build process
181 - dracut: add --kernel-only and --no-kernel arguments
184 only install kernel drivers and firmware files
187 do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
189 All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
192 For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
193 modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
194 which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
196 The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
197 modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
198 to replace one image.
200 Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
203 title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
205 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
206 initrd /initrd-20090722.img /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img /initrd-config.img
209 the image provided by the initrd rpm
210 one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
212 initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
213 the image provided by the kernel rpm
216 optional image with local configuration files
218 - dracut: add --kmoddir directory, where to look for kernel modules
221 specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules
227 - more generic (all plymouth modules, all keyboards, all console fonts)
228 - more kernel command line parameters (see also man dracut(8))
229 - a helper tool, which generates the kernel command line (dracut-gencmdline)
230 - bridged network boot
231 - a lot of new command line parameter
236 - firmware loading support
237 - new internal queue (initqueue)
238 initqueue now loops until /dev/root exists or root is mounted
240 init now has the following points to inject scripts:
243 scripts for command line parsing
246 scripts to run before udev is started
249 scripts to run before the main udev trigger is pulled
252 runs in parallel to the udev trigger
253 Udev events can add scripts here with /sbin/initqueue.
254 If /sbin/initqueue is called with the "--onetime" option, the script
255 will be removed after it was run.
256 If /initqueue/work is created and udev >= 143 then this loop can
257 process the jobs in parallel to the udevtrigger.
258 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
259 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
261 Scripts can remove themselves from the initqueue by "rm $job".
264 scripts to run before the root filesystem is mounted
265 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
266 and mounts in the udev events
269 scripts to mount the root filesystem
270 NFS is an exception, because it has no device node to be created
271 and mounts in the udev events
272 If the udev queue is empty and no root device is found or no root
273 filesystem was mounted, the user will be dropped to a shell after
277 scripts to run before the real init is executed and the initramfs
279 All processes started before should be killed here.
281 The behaviour of the dmraid module demonstrates how to use the new
282 mechanism. If it detects a device which is part of a raidmember from a
283 udev rule, it installs a job to scan for dmraid devices, if the udev
284 queue is empty. After a scan, it removes itsself from the queue.
291 - first public version