Information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut Download: F-11: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=114853 Rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=114854 or if the mirrors have synced: # yum update dracut Bugs can be filed in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=dr... Debugging ========= Create your image with the debug module: # dracut -a debug /boot/test-$(uname -r) $(uname -r) Add "rdshell" to the kernel command line, remove "rhgb" and "quiet" and boot the image. Once you are dropped to a shell do: # dmesg|grep dracut Add the output and your kernel command line to the bug report. see also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Debugging What's new in dracut-0.5: ========================= - more generic (all plymouth modules, all keyboards, all console fonts) - more kernel command line parameters (see also man dracut(8)) - a helper tool, which generates the kernel command line (dracut-gencmdline) for my machine this looks like this: # /sbin/dracut-gencmdline rd_DM_UUID=nvidia_dddhfead rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-227fe0ce-7e8c-453a-823f-d5bf34ca1da3 rd_LVM_VG=VolGroup00 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=de-latin1 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 If you have encrypted partitions you should at least set "KEYTABLE" to have the correct keyboard setting. rd_DM_UUID, rd_LUKS_UUID, rd_MD_UUID help you, if dracut does more than you want in its automatic mode. So if you want to be more specific on what dracut is allowed to assemble, uncrypt etc. just specify the exact parameters. For those with an Intel fake software raid onboard (imsm/isw), you might not want MD handle those, but fallback to the old behaviour with DM. To do so add rd_NO_MDIMSM to the kernel command line. New kernel command line parameters: I18N e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys KEYBOARDTYPE=sun|pc will be written to /etc/sysconfig/keyboard in the initramfs KEYTABLE=<keytable filename> will be written to /etc/sysconfig/keyboard in the initramfs SYSFONT= Console font will be written to /etc/sysconfig/i18n in the initramfs SYSFONTACM= Unicode font map will be written to /etc/sysconfig/i18n in the initramfs UNIMAP= Unicode font map will be written to /etc/sysconfig/i18n in the initramfs LANG=<locale> will be written to /etc/sysconfig/i18n in the initramfs Bootsplash - plymouth rd_plytheme=<theme name> specify the plymouth bootsplash theme (fallback is text) LVM rd_NO_LVM disable LVM detection rd_LVM_VG=<volume group name> only activate the volume groups with the given name crypto LUKS rd_NO_LUKS disable crypto LUKS detection rd_LUKS_UUID=<luks uuid> only activate the LUKS partitions with the given UUID MD rd_NO_MD disable MD RAID detection rd_NO_MDIMSM no MD RAID for imsm/isw raids, use dmraid instead rd_MD_UUID=<md uuid> only activate the raid sets with the given UUID DMRAID rd_NO_DM disable DM RAID detection rd_DM_UUID=<dmraid uuid> only activate the raid sets with the given UUID