MKINITRD

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
AVAILABILITY
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO

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NAME

mkinitrd − is a compat wrapper, which calls dracut to generate an initramfs

SYNOPSIS

mkinitrd [OPTION…] []

DESCRIPTION

mkinitrd creates an initramfs image for the kernel with version by calling “dracut”.

Important
If a more fine grained control over the resulting image is needed, “dracut” should be called directly.

OPTIONS

−−version

print info about the version

−v, −−verbose

increase verbosity level

−f, −−force

overwrite existing initramfs file.

*−−image−version

append the kernel version to the target image −.

−−with=

add the kernel module to the initramfs.

−−preload=

preload the kernel module in the initramfs before any other kernel modules are loaded. This can be used to ensure a certain device naming, which should in theory be avoided and the use of symbolic links in /dev is encouraged.

−−nocompress

do not compress the resulting image.

−−help

print a help message and exit.

AVAILABILITY

The mkinitrd command is part of the dracut package and is available from https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org

AUTHORS

Harald Hoyer

SEE ALSO

dracut(8)

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