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How to enable SHA256 or HMAC verification for vmlinuz/initrd in KIWI NG with Dracut 10?
I'm migrating a custom Linux image setup from KIWI NG 10 + Dracut 9 to KIWI NG 10 + Dracut 10 on RHEL 9, and I’m encountering issues related to kernel/initrd verification during boot. 🧩 Previous ...
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RHEL8 dracut initramfs switch-root hanging on one machine and not others
I have a 2TB external SSD connected to a server. Using the server, I booted into the RHEL8 installer and successfully installed onto the external drive, however during the post-install reboot (and all ...
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How to debug why I get no boot prompt to decrypt LUKS volume containing root filesystem? [systemd-cryptsetup]
I am currently using Rocky 9 + Linux kernel 5.14.0 + security / stability patches. I have two GPT partitions that contain multiple LVM filesystems. One partition is encrypted (LUKS), and one is not. ...
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Asking help with booting centos7.9 issue
I want to install a centos7.9 minimal version, and burn the iso image into a use device, the startup guide to install centos7, and i press enter, then failed. After searching many answers from ...
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How to add a custom init process to initramfs image built with Dracut?
I want to use Dracut for initramfs image creation. This image should be able to shrink a root filesystem on a Fedora machine. I would like to test partition shrinking flow manually first. If ...
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Boot failing: Dracut-initqueue rm: cannot remove /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-.....sh: Read-only file system
I started using Dracut around a year ago to use Yubikey Pin unlock and everything was fine a few days ago. After a routine apt update on my LUKS encrypted Debian Trixie machine the linux kernel was ...
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stuck on "still waiting for dracut initqueue hook" timeout
In an attempt to use my TPM module to automatically unlock the LUKS-encrypted LVM volume, I followed a guide and set up /etc/crypttab and installed dracut which then proceeded to create what I think ...
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Dracut - what is it and why does it suddenly run without reboot?
I see that dracut has been run on my system (RHEL 9) during the weekend, and it seems like it has changed my authselect configuration messing up SSH connections. After some searching I've found that: ...
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startup message in Centos 7: could not boot
Dead community, Does anyone know the solution to this error message that I get when starting Centos Linux (3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core) [ 198.942749] dracut-initqueuel3371: Warning: /dev/...
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RHEL 7.9 + microcode_ctl + warning in kernel messages
I want to share the following issue after upgrading the security rpm's on RHEL 7.9 machines include update of microcode_ctl rpm rpm -qa | grep microcod microcode_ctl-2.1-73.15.el7_9.x86_64 we noticed ...
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Dracut: What does the rd.lvm.snapshot command line option do?
In the dracut.cmdline manpage, under the deprecated section, it has these old options and their replacements. rd_LVM_SNAPSHOT rd.lvm.snapshot rd_LVM_SNAPSIZE rd.lvm.snapsize But no actual ...
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How to find why /dev/disk isn't created?
During boot system logs into journal [ 4.604302] x-com (udev-worker)[359]: sda: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/73-seat-late.rules:13 Failed to import properties 'ID_SEAT' from parent: Operation not ...
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Unable to load LVM module
I am using RHEL 8, it was installed with Server with GUI, I need to change it to CLI (minimal) only so what I did from SSH session I ran following commands yum group install "Minimal" -y ...
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Failed to boot after installing dracut on Ubuntu 22.04 with zfs file system
I installed (sudo apt install dracut, did not change any configuration files) dracut on my Ubuntu 22.04 and rebooted. Now I get the message dracut: FATAL: Don't know hot to handle 'root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/...
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Stop Dracut from asking for a password
I have a device I've encrypted with luks1 and I decrypt it with a script in init.d. (Centos 6, no keyscript in crypttab). Its a raid disk, with the encryption under the raid, but I don't think that ...