[Discuss] Dracut and fstab

[Jeremy Van Veelen]

Hi Peter,

It sounds like an interesting issue, what did you end up doing to resolve
it?

Curiously,
Jeremy

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM Peter Willis <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:

> This is now resolved.
>
> P
>
> > On Feb 5, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Peter Willis <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am netbooting and want to use the fstab file that points to the shared
> nfs file system. The system boots using the fstab included in initramfs
> image. The problem arrises with the nfs driver modules.
> >
> > It seems that dracut removes the nfs driver if fstab is added to the
> ramfs image. If the drivers are added back then fstab is removed from the
> image.
> >
> > Love / hate dracut.
> >
> > Am I overthinking this? Should I just mkinitrd with network options? I
> am booting redhat but over ib_ipoib. It’s running up my ramdisk so I assume
> the network is up, except thats PXE side of things. The ib and nfs drivers
> still need to load for the os, prior to mounting the shared file system.
> >
> > All the online documentation seems to predate dracut.
> >
> > Thanks for any enlightenment
>
>
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