Installing dracut on the install client

[Robert Markula]

Am 23.01.19 um 08:07 schrieb Thomas Lange:
>     > anyone succeeded in installing dracut on a Debian stretch client using FAI?
> I'm installing all my machines using dracut. I have this line in my
> package_config file:
>
> dracut initramfs-tools-

It seems that LVM is the culprit. Using dracut, as soon as the root
filesystem resides on LVM, the system panics. However, using the exact
same config, but with initramfs-tools instead of dracut, everything
works as it should.

Test cases:

* LVM + dracut: fails
* LVM + initramfs-tools: works
* non-LVM + dracut: works


*** disk_config LVM: ***
<snip>
# Physical disks
disk_config disk1    bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid
primary            /boot        1GiB    ext4    defaults,errors=remount-ro
primary            -        18GiB-    -    -

# LVM layer
disk_config lvm
vg            vgmain        disk1.2
vgmain-root        /        10GiB    ext4    defaults,errors=remount-ro
vgmain-home        /home        1GiB    ext4    defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev
vgmain-srv        /srv        1GiB-    ext4    defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev
vgmain-tmp        /tmp        1GiB    ext4    defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev
vgmain-var        /var        2GiB    ext4    defaults,nosuid
vgmain-vartmp        /var/tmp    1GiB    ext4   
defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev
vgmain-swap        swap        1GiB    swap    sw
</snip>


*** disk_config non-LVM: ***
<snip>
# Physical disks
disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid
primary /      2G-50G   ext4  rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro
logical swap   200-10G  swap  sw
logical /home  100-     ext4  rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L
home -m 1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
</snip>