Installing dracut on the install client

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Jan 28 09:28:32 CET 2019


>>>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:34:19 +0100, Robert Markula <robert at markula.org> said:

    > 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.
You need rd.auto as additional kernel cmdline parameter if you use LVM
for the root filesystem. See man dracut.cmdline for more info.

-- 
regards Thomas


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