Bug 678120

Summary:	mkinitrd does not contain --help information or man page information for nfsroot options
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Dave Kline <dkline>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Brian Lane <bcl>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version:	5.6	CC:	ddumas
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Description Dave Kline 2011-02-16 20:04:27 UTC

Description of problem:

The --rootfs and --rootdev parameters are needed in order to create an initrd capable of nfsroot/netboot.  These flags aren't present when looking at command help (--help) or viewing the man page.

How reproducible:

mkinitrd --help / man mkinitrd

Expected results:

Information about the usage and implications of --rootfs/--rootdev parameters.

Additional information:

BZ 244727 and BZ 243775 contain additional nfsroot information.

Comment 1 David Cantrell 2013-03-20 13:54:30 UTC

mkinitrd is a dead end at this point.  RHEL-6 and beyond have moved to dracut.  While I agree that the documentation for mkinitrd is not stellar, this is not really appropriate for the 5.10 update release.