mkinitrd — is a compat wrapper, which calls dracut to generate an initramfs
Synopsis
mkinitrd [OPTION...] [<initrd-image>] <kernel-version>
Description
mkinitrd creates an initramfs image <initrd-image> for the kernel with version <kernel-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 <initrd-image>-<kernel-version>.
- --with=<module>
add the kernel module <module> to the initramfs.
- --preload=<module>
preload the kernel module <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
See Also
Referenced By
grubby(8), localectl(1), new-kernel-pkg(8), switch_root(8).