[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-003

Available as a F-12 test update and of course in rawhide and as a tarball on the sourceforge project page.

To test it on Fedora 12 do (it might take some time until the update is pushed and mirrors are synced):

# yum –enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut
# mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-old-$(uname -r).img
# dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Here are the major changes compared to dracut-002:

• debian package modules
• dracut.conf manpage
• module 90multipath
• module 01fips
• crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there) unless rd_NO_CRYPTTAB is specified
• kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc
• multinic support
• s390 zfcp support
• s390 dasd support
• s390 network support
• strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
• redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
• new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
• fixed dracut-gencmdline for root=UUID or LABEL
• do not destroy assembled raid arrays if mdadm.conf present
• mount /dev/shm
• let udevd not resolve group and user names
• preserve timestamps of tools on initramfs generation
• generate symlinks for binaries correctly
• moved network from udev to initqueue
• mount nfs3 with nfsvers=3 option and retry with nfsvers=2
• fixed nbd initqueue-finished
• improved debug output: specifying "rdinitdebug" now logs to dmesg, console and /init.log
• strip kernel modules which have no x bit set
• redirect stdin, stdout, stderr all RW to /dev/console so the user can use "less" to view /init.log and dmesg
• make install of new dm/lvm udev rules optionally
• new device mapper udev rules and dmeventd
• Fix LiveCD boot regression
• bail out if selinux policy could not be loaded and selinux=0 not specified on kernel command line
• do not cleanup dmraids
• copy over lvm.conf