Bug 690220

Summary: Dracut 008 parameter <kernel-version> broken?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian>
Component: dracutAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 16:08:12 UTC
I am running Kernel 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 right now.  I am trying to
make an initramfs for 2.6.38-gentoo, which I have compiled
and installed to /boot.  /usr/src/linux is also pointing to that version.

Interestingly, no matter what I pass as the kernel-version parameter I always get 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 stuff mixed in (see below) and the initramfs never ends up at /boot/initramfs-2.6.38-gentoo.img but at /usr/src/linux-2.6.38-gentoo/${kernelversion}.

What value do I need to pass for kernel-version to
- get in 2.6.38 stuff only
- have the file end up at /boot/initramfs-2.6.38-gentoo.img
?

This shell session shows:

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # dracut -v -H -f 2.6.38 |& fgrep 2.6.
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1//modules.builtin.bin
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
4	/tmp/initramfs.l2usvS/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel
4	/tmp/initramfs.l2usvS/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers
4	/tmp/initramfs.l2usvS/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi
84	/tmp/initramfs.l2usvS/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 23 16:57 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38-gentoo/2.6.38

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # dracut -v -H -f 2.6.38-gentoo |& fgrep 2.6.
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1//modules.builtin.bin
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
4	/tmp/initramfs.Y2vacb/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel
4	/tmp/initramfs.Y2vacb/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers
4	/tmp/initramfs.Y2vacb/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi
84	/tmp/initramfs.Y2vacb/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 23 16:57 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38-gentoo/2.6.38-gentoo

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # uname -r
2.6.37-gentoo-r1

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # dracut -v -H -f 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 |& fgrep 2.6.
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1//modules.builtin.bin
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
4	/tmp/initramfs.vMTgbu/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel
4	/tmp/initramfs.vMTgbu/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers
4	/tmp/initramfs.vMTgbu/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi
84	/tmp/initramfs.vMTgbu/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 23 16:58 /usr/src/linux-2.6.38-gentoo/2.6.37-gentoo-r1

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # dracut -v -H -f |& fgrep 2.6.
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1//modules.builtin.bin
I: Installing /lib/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
4	/tmp/initramfs.IXccXM/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel
4	/tmp/initramfs.IXccXM/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers
4	/tmp/initramfs.IXccXM/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi
84	/tmp/initramfs.IXccXM/lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 23 16:58 /boot/initramfs-2.6.37-gentoo-r1.img

sevendust linux-2.6.38-gentoo # ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 19 22:44 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.38-gentoo

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2011-03-23 16:44:30 UTC
It's

# dracut [OPTION]... <image>  <kernel-version>

not 

# dracut [OPTION]... <kernel-version> <image>

Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 16:58:06 UTC
Oh, right.  Sorry.