[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

Here it is, dracut-0.3!

Featuring booting from all kind of block devices, NFS, iSCSI and NBD.

Dracut is a new initramfs infrastructure. It should replace nash/mkinitrd.
Dracut is a feauture for Fedora 12 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut

How to get started, if you want to test.

On Fedora 11 or Fedora rawhide (you might have to wait until the mirrors catch up):

# yum install dracut-0.3

or download the tarball: http://harald.fedorapeople.org/downloads/dracut/dracut-0.3.tar.bz2

# tar xzf dracut-0.3.tar.bz2
# cd dracut-0.3
# make install sbindir=/sbin sysconfdir=/etc

To generate a initramfs image, run:

# dracut <imagename> <kernel version>

to overwrite an existing image:

# dracut -f <imagename> <kernel version>

Update:
Ok, it seems the debug dracut module wants to be installed automatically, due to a bug.
You either have all binaries which are needed by the dracut debug module, or create the images with:

# dracut --omit debug <imagename> <kernel version>

Try to boot from that image by modifying /etc/grub.conf. Be sure to have a fallback entry.

If you want to boot from network have a look at the manpage.  Basically everything can be specified on the kernel command line.

Bug reports can be send directly to me (harald@redhat.com) until dracut appears in the bugzilla component list.

Further information about dracut: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dracut/wiki