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FastTurtle
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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:05 am Post subject: dracut wont rebuild initrd without --force |
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I'm using the gentoo-kernel-bin and just added the zfs mods. Following the Wiki guide and they state use dracut and rebuild the initrd file but it tells me not going to happen without --force.
Anyhelp on this appreciated
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zen_desu
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:16 am Post subject: Re: dracut wont rebuild initrd without --force |
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| FastTurtle wrote: | I'm using the gentoo-kernel-bin and just added the zfs mods. Following the Wiki guide and they state use dracut and rebuild the initrd file but it tells me not going to happen without --force.
Anyhelp on this appreciated |
This is probably related to the fact that the initramfs must be built after the kernel _and_ zfs kmods are installed.
I think initramfs generators should exit with code 77 if they are missing required kmods.
This may explain why forcing could be required, but you may not get far booting if --force is absolutely required to get an image built.
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Nowa
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Run "emerge --config gentoo-kernel-bin" instead of calling dracut manually. Or add the --force argument, as instructed by dracut.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| dracut will refuse to build any initramfs when the target file already exists. --force overrides the existence check and allows overwriting. |
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FastTurtle
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the long wait but doning an
rebuild to hopefully fix another issue
Nowa: so all I need to do is emerge --config gentoo-kernel-bin to rebuild the initrd file.
grknight: thanks for the explanation as to why dracut was pitching a fit and how the --force flag solves it.
I'll try the emerge --config gentoo-kernel-bin as that may be the better choice for now.
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