At boot, dracut repeats some messages (e.g. switching root). This seems odd, like dracut is running twice at the same time. Once it hands over to init, the messages are no longer repeated. I will post the messages later.
dracut prints to the console and the kernel message buffer. If you remove "quiet" the kernel message buffer is also displayed, thus resulting in the double messages.
Ah I see. If the console and kernel message buffer are not configurable at that point in the boot process, can dracut not do that? Or is it not worth the effort? The reason I ask is that I have had a similar situation in the past, when init *was* running twice, and this was the symptom.
the git version of dracut suppresses output to console, if "quiet" is not specified, so we will only see the kernel dmesg output.
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-004-4.fc12
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1088
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.