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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut</H1>
+ <B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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+ <I>Fri Dec 16 13:58:40 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On 16.12.2011 14:35, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+&gt;<i> Hiya,
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+</I>&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallon at 16/12/11 12:06 did gyre and gimble:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> After those couple previous thread it looks like move to dracut is
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ongoing, so I decided to try it.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Good! This is exactly the kind of feedback we need!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I found a couple problems:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - dracut inists on loading nouveau driver. With mknitrd, just booting with nokmsboot
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> works. Booting with a dracut generated initrd ignores that. I think it is plymouth
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> that forces it, even if I added 'blacklist nouveau' in a .conf file in modprobe.d:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> dracut -f:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I'll include it but if it's blacklisted, it shouldn't ultimately be used
+</I>&gt;<i> in the ramfs even if it's included. That said, it's clearly inefficient
+</I>&gt;<i> to include it if it is blacklisted so we should try and fix that. Anssi,
+</I>&gt;<i> could this be your code to detect the h/w that causes it to bypass any
+</I>&gt;<i> blacklist checks (not sure if there are actually any blacklist checks
+</I>&gt;<i> when building the initrd... not relaly looked at it much)
+</I>
+There is no check.
+
+&gt;<i> I think the nokmsboot parameter is not working in dracut because the
+</I>&gt;<i> udev rule that interprets it uses the grep command and that is not
+</I>&gt;<i> currently included in the ramdisk. I could hack it in easy enough, but
+</I>&gt;<i> we should maybe see if a more minimal method of detecting it in the
+</I>&gt;<i> commandline is possible.
+</I>
+Ah, my dracut initramfs from last month has it, but maybe it has changed
+since then...
+
+Feel free to change the udev rule to use a more minimal method :)
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+Anssi Hannula
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