dracut

Earlier today while performing the update on my Fedora desktop, I encountered an issue with the new kernel update. As a result, the initramfs was not generated for the new installed kernel. So, I’ll share with you how to rebuild or generate the initramfs while fixing real issue on my Fedora workstation. First, here is an output showing the source of the issue. It might not be clear of what’s going on, but that’s okay as it’s not the main focus of this blog post....

I’ve been running Fedora 34 pre-release version even before it became beta. Everything has been working so far until recently when a package dracut was updated from 0.58 to 0.58-1. What is dracut? Good question. It’s an initramfs infrastructure used on Fedora system. Find out more from Dracut. The issue that introduced in version 0.58-1 on F34 is that it prevents any machines that use LUKS encryption for root partition to boot....