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