Questions tagged [dracut]
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Repairing my initframs in dracut emergency mode Fedora26
I am trying to install Nvidia drivers on Fedora, following this tutorial.
Everything went fine till 2.7 : reboot to runlevel 3.
While booting I get such warnings :
dracut-initqueue timeout -starting timeout scripts
Finally, it starts the dracut…
Cabirto
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How to use dracut in chroot environment established through SLES15 Rescue boot image?
To fix an unbootable SLES15 system, I booted the Rescue image, mounted the existing system to /mnt, and then did chroot /mnt (I'm leaving out the details, as those are probably known (or found in How do you create a chroot environment for OpenSUSE…
U. Windl
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Secure boot with unified kernel image on openSuSE?
I am trying to install OpenSuSE Tumbleweed on a system with encrypted root partition. At first i tried to set up GRUB, but it refused to recognize a LUKS-encrypted partition.
Currently I am trying to use a unified kernel image which signes both the…
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LVM PE migraged to new PV, now Linux boot stops after decryption of LUKS device
I migrated all LV extents from one PV to a new PV. Both old and new PVs were LUKS encrypted devices. root is one of the migrated LVs.
This didn't work as, after migration, boot wouldn't even try to unlock the new LUKS PV. It was asking for…
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Booting Fedora22 from a non live usb drive
I am trying to install fedora on a flash drive and then boot off of it from a pc that is not especially accessible. I tried setting every thing to by label to get past the uuid issue. I got it to the error message of no /dev/disk/by-label/... …
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How can I enable core dumps in initrd (dracut/Fedora based)?
I have a situation where a system that is intended to continue installation dumps core in initrd, effectively being unable to mount the root filesystem as a consequence.
As it tuned out, mdadm or lvm get a segmentation fault, and I was asked to…
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Fedora 29 boots into dracut emergency shell after resizing root partition
I resized the root filesystem on Fedora 29 in VirtualBox from 15GB to 20GB but can no longer get it to boot. It always lands in the dracut emergency shell. After first resizing the VDI and the snapshots in VirtualBox, I enlarged the disks as per…
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Initramfs creating bad/duplicate mount point in Linux
I have a CentOS7 system, and I built a 4.14.29 kernel for it, created an initrd for it - just as I have many, many other times. When I now do this (going from a 4.11 to a 4.14.29 kernel) - I am seeing my root filesystem also getting mounted over…
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Boot ISO image with Kaspersky antivirus via Grub
I have difficulties when trying to boot ISO image provided by Kasperky. I have tried two options:
A. Boot by loading kernel:
menuentry "Kaspersky Rescue" {
# Taken from http://rescuedisk.kaspersky-labs.com/rescuedisk/updatable/kav_rescue_10.iso
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dma_k
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Dracut Emerg Shell: Mount LVM2 volume
How can I mount a (LUKS encrypted) LVM volume in the dracut emergency shell?
I made fatal changes to /etc/fstab that needs to be undone.
I did cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mmcblk0p2 crypthome and entered the passphrase.
Then tried to mount:
mount…
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Kernel 4.4.1-1 fails to boot - root volume "does not exist" - 3.10.0.327 and 4.3.3-1 both continue to boot fine
I'm trying to install and boot kernel-ml (currently 4.4.1-1) on RHEL 7.2 following the instructions here: http://linuxg.net/install-kernel-4-x-on-enterprise-linux-7-centos-7-and-rhel-7/
Install works fine and on reboot I can choose the new kernel…
