Bug 678120 - mkinitrd does not contain --help information or man page information for nfsroot options
Summary: mkinitrd does not contain --help information or man page information for nfsr...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 5.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-16 20:04 UTC by Dave Kline
Modified: 2013-03-20 13:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-20 13:54:30 UTC
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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.
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