dracut is a Linux initramfs environment, initially written for Fedora.
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CentOS 7 (Dracut) - Network boot with gateway in different subnet
I'm trying to auto-setup VM guests with CentOS 7 using network boot and kickstart with external network connectivity based on linux bridge. And I'd like to have solution lightweight, simple and portable, so I decided to create own, quite simple…
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Close putty connection from CentOS 6 shell script
as title says I have a centOS 6 machine which uses an dracut, initramfs preboot ssh. I want to create a shell script that at the end of it's execution it closes the console and ssh connection. How can I do that. Escape character ~. does not work.
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Kickstart installation with media on USB and kickstart file on hard drive
Is it possible to perform a kickstart installation using install media on a USB drive and a kickstart file on a hard drive?
The only solutions I have been able to find online suggest adding the kickstart file to the USB image, which I'd like to…
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During which dracut hook can a PXE client rename predictable interfaces names with a udev rule?
tl;dr: During load of an initramfs (execution of dracut modules) on a PXE client, I need to rename the kernel-given (predictable) interface names (right now they're unpredictable ethX names). This way, the PXE client will always boot from a…
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Linux server wont shutdown - A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target
I am settin up a server with draut and iSCSI - I messed up a target / IP mapping, and now my server is stuck while booting:
A start job is running for Login iSCSI Target ... (23min 10s / no limit)
I am currently unable to even reboot the server to…
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After changing a system disk partition, system won't boot, goes into "Dracut Emergency Shell"; how do I get it to boot?
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I had a new system that I'd spent a lot of time configuring the software on to perform all manner of services and then discovered the drive was potentially flaky. So I decided to replace the disk, keeping the contents for the new…
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