mkinitrd (8) Linux Manual Page

mkinitrd – is a compat wrapper, which calls dracut to generate an initramfs

Synopsis

mkinitrd [OPTION…] [<initrd-image>] <kernel-version>

Description

mkinitrd creates an initramfs image <initrd-image> for the kernel with version <kernel-version> by calling "dracut".

Important
If a more fine grained control over the resulting image is needed, "dracut" should be called directly.

Options

–version

print info about the version

-v, –verbose

increase verbosity level

-f, –force

overwrite existing initramfs file.

*–image-version

append the kernel version to the target image <initrd-image>-<kernel-version>.

–with=<module>

add the kernel module <module> to the initramfs.

–preload=<module>

preload the kernel module <module> in the initramfs before any other kernel modules are loaded. This can be used to ensure a certain device naming, which should in theory be avoided and the use of symbolic links in /dev is encouraged.

–nocompress

do not compress the resulting image.

–help

print a help message and exit.

Availability

The mkinitrd command is part of the dracut package and is available from m[blue]https://dracut.wiki.kernel.orgm[]

Authors

Harald Hoyer

See Also

dracut(8)