Dracut/Options

🔗 Dracut kernel command line parameters

🔗 Limitations

• Command line length: 2048
• dhcp root-path: 255

🔗 Configuration in initrd

/conf/conf.d/* 

Command line options can override values set here

🔗 Standard

init=<path to real init>

root=<path to blockdevice>

Specify e.g. /dev/sda1 or /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:1:0-part1

🔗 DHCP

root=dhcp

Get IP from dhcp server, root-path option from dhcp specifies root location.

🔗 NFSv3

root=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[:<nfs-options>]

Mount nfs share from <server-ip>:/<root-dir> If no server-ip is given use dhcp next_server. nfs-options can be appended with the prefix ":" or ","

root=dhcp

root=dhcp alone directs initrd to look at the DHCP root-path where NFS options can be specified.

root-path=<server-ip>:<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]

Deprecated

root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]

Kernel Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt defines this method. This is supported by dracut but not recommended.

🔗 NFSv4

root=nfs4:[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[:<nfs-options>]

mount nfsv4 share from <server-ip>:/<root-dir>. If no server-ip is given, use dhcp next_server. nfs-options can be appended with the prefix ":" or ","

root=dhcp

root-path=nfs4:<server-ip>:<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]. root=dhcp alone directs initrd to look at the DHCP root-path where NFS options can be specified.

🔗 iSCSI

root=iscsi:[<servername>]:[<protocol>]:[<port>]:[<LUN>]:<targetname>::

Protocol defaults to "6", LUN defaults to "0". If the "servername" field is provided by BOOTP or DHCP, then that field is used in conjunction with other associated fields to contact the boot server in the Boot stage (Section 7). However, if the "servername" field is not provided, then the "targetname" field is then used in the Discovery Service stage in conjunction with other associated fields.RFC4173

root=??? iscsiroot=...::

root=??? iscsi_initiator= iscsi_target_name= iscsi_target_ip= iscsi_target_port= iscsi_target_group= iscsi_username= iscsi_password= iscsi_in_username= iscsi_in_password=::

root=??? iscsi_firmware::

🔗 NBD

root=nbd:<server>:<port>[:<fstype>][:<mountopts>]

Mount nbd share from <server>.

root=dhcp

root-path=nbd:<server>:<port>[:<fstype>][:<mountopts>]. root=dhcp alone directs initrd to look at the DHCP root-path where NBD options can be specified. This syntax is only usable in cases where you are directly mounting the volume as the rootfs.

🔗 Network

ip=[dhcp|on|any]

Get ip from dhcp server from all interfaces.If root=dhcp, loop sequentially through all interfaces '(eth0, eth1, ...)' and use the first with a valid DHCP root-path.

ip=<interface>:[dhcp|on|any]

Get ip from dhcp server on a specific interface.

ip=<client-IP-number>:<gateway-IP-number>:<netmask>:<client-hostname>:<interface>:[dhcp|on|any|]

Explicit network configuration

🔗 Misc

rdblacklist=<modulename>

TBD: do not load modulename.

🔗 Debug

rdinitdebug

set -x for the dracut shell.

rdbreak=[pre-udev|pre-mount|mount|pre-pivot|]

Drop the shell on defined breakpoint.

rdudevinfo

Set udev to loglevel info.

rdudevdebug

Set udev to loglevel debug.

rdnetdebug

Debug network scripts in dracut.