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dracut is a Linux initramfs environment, initially written for Fedora.

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CentOS 7 (Dracut) - Network boot with gateway in different subnet

I'm trying to auto-setup VM guests with CentOS 7 using network boot and kickstart with external network connectivity based on linux bridge. And I'd like to have solution lightweight, simple and portable, so I decided to create own, quite simple…
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Close putty connection from CentOS 6 shell script

as title says I have a centOS 6 machine which uses an dracut, initramfs preboot ssh. I want to create a shell script that at the end of it's execution it closes the console and ssh connection. How can I do that. Escape character ~. does not work.
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Bootprocess stops after detaching raid member

I run following Setup in my Testlabor before migrating into production: Dm-crypt/luks Raid1 / btrfs EFI dracut / fedora Server GRUB2 Systemd I simulated a drive failure (the one without boot partition) The boot process stops with: Waiting for Job of…
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Issues with Kickstart on Fedora 38

I'm having an issue where I receive the following errors when attempting an install with Anaconda Kickstart. The input below is the default when I enter the ‘inst.ks’ option Input: setparams 'Install Fedora 38' linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz…
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Rocky 9.1 dracut fails to boot

My rocky 9.1 vm kernel is not able to load/boot/decrypt a LVM Luks2 volume during boot. Booting with 5.14.0-162.6 works fine. But fails booting the latest 5.14.0-162.18 or 5.14.0-162.12 kernel, dracut throws with error: Starting dracut pre-udev…
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During which dracut hook can a PXE client rename predictable interfaces names with a udev rule?

tl;dr: During load of an initramfs (execution of dracut modules) on a PXE client, I need to rename the kernel-given (predictable) interface names (right now they're unpredictable ethX names). This way, the PXE client will always boot from a…
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Linux server wont shutdown - A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target

I am settin up a server with draut and iSCSI - I messed up a target / IP mapping, and now my server is stuck while booting: A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target ... (23min 10s / no limit) I am currently unable to even reboot the server to…
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After changing a system disk partition, system won't boot, goes into "Dracut Emergency Shell"; how do I get it to boot?

Background I had a new system that I'd spent a lot of time configuring the software on to perform all manner of services and then discovered the drive was potentially flaky. So I decided to replace the disk, keeping the contents for the new…
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