Right now, most of the testing is done using a qemu/kvm guest and
generating the initramfs on another box but the support is all present
to build for the "running" machine. For the former, you can boot the guest
-using qemu's -kernel and -initrd options.
+using qemu's -kernel and -initrd options.
dracut exists and will build an image. It is command-line equivalent
to most mkinitrd implementations and should be pretty straight-forward
-to use.
+to use.
To use, just run dracut with an output file name and, optionally, a
kernel version (it defaults to using the current). The appropriate
and set
dracutmodules="foo bar baz"
-Note that dracut calls functional components in modules.d "modules"
+Note that dracut calls functional components in modules.d "modules"
while kernel modules are called "drivers".
Requirements: