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| From | Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.gentoo.user |
| Subject | Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] New News Item: 2026-xx-yy-dracut-hostonly-cmdline |
| Date | 2026-05-08 19:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <MSwS5-3Ekf-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <MSuQi-3B98-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <MSuQi-3B98-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 5/8/26 9:56 AM, Dale wrote: > On 5/8/26 7:27 AM, Immolo wrote: >> Could you send results to the -dev thread after updating your kernel and >> such please. >> >> Thanks again for testing! >> >> immolo > Right now I'm working on cutting up a 80 foot tall pin oak tree. It > fell a few weeks ago and my neighbor can't do the work due to heart > trouble, and back problems as well. He used to jump out of planes in > the military, when the planes were working just fine even. LOL I'll try > to set aside some time in between naps to work on that. I need a new > working kernel anyway. I try to keep older working kernels around but > my old kernels have no console due to a Nvidia driver change, we pretty > sure anyway. Anyway, I need a new kernel so that I have two working > kernels, with a working console as well. It was on my todo list, I'll > just try to notch it up a bit. > > Thanks to all for the awesome work all of you do. Gentoo is awesome. I > been using it since 2003. I feel old, in more ways than one. :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) I had to wait on something else to finish before I could go work on the tree. I built a new kernel and fixed the i18n error dracut was producing as well. Do I have to reboot to check if it works or not? Some info on current results, having not rebooted, further below. A change I noticed. It isn't verbose anymore. At first, I thought dracut didn't work at all. It looked as if it did nothing, except print out the i18n error at first. I added the -v option so I could *see* it work. Is that a unintended change? This is one command that should work, without rebooting, but I'm not sure if this is correct. It doesn't look correct with the old dracut either but this is missing more options including one mentioned in the news item. New dracut: root@Gentoo-1 /usr/src/linux-6.19.14-gentoo # lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-6.19.14-1.img Image: /boot/initramfs-6.19.14-1.img: 12M ======================================================================== Early CPIO image ======================================================================== drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 8 11:24 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 8 11:24 early_cpio drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 8 11:24 kernel drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 8 11:24 kernel/x86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 8 11:24 kernel/x86/microcode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128644 May 8 11:24 kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin ======================================================================== Version: dracut-111 Arguments: --kver '6.19.14-gentoo' dracut modules: bash i18n fs-lib kernel-modules kernel-modules-extra rootfs-block terminfo udev-rules usrmount base shell-interpreter shutdown ======================================================================== <<<SNIP>>> dracut cmdline: root@Gentoo-1 /usr/src/linux-6.19.14-gentoo # This is what I get with old init thingy built with older dracut. root@Gentoo-1 / # lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-6.18.19-1.img Image: /boot/initramfs-6.18.19-1.img: 26M ======================================================================== Early CPIO image ======================================================================== drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Mar 25 02:01 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Mar 25 02:01 early_cpio drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Mar 25 02:01 kernel drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Mar 25 02:01 kernel/x86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 25 02:01 kernel/x86/microcode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128644 Mar 25 02:01 kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin ======================================================================== Version: Arguments: --kver '6.18.19-gentoo' dracut modules: bash i18n network-manager network net-lib crypt dm fs-lib kernel-modules kernel-modules-extra kernel-network-modules lvm qemu qemu-net hwdb lunmask nfs rootfs-block terminfo udev-rules virtiofs initqueue usrmount base shell-interpreter shutdown ======================================================================== <<<SNIP>>> dracut cmdline: root=UUID=26e58ee4-9c8f-4efd-bbb3-215df71cf85e rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=rw,noatime root@Gentoo-1 / # As you can see, no root=, rootfstype=, or rootflags in new dracut like in the old. I also have some nvidia and video settings in the config but they don't show up in the old version, or new one either. That may be normal. Am I doing something wrong or is this change having effects that were not intended? I'm hoping this real world test will help make this change go better. BTW, I set up a alias for dracut. The actual command is dracut -v --kver=$(cat include/config/kernel.release). Neil, from -user, posted that a long time ago and it works well. If you need more info, please let me know, with commands. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) P. S. About to go work on that tree a bit.
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