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News -- Lo Kai Restaurant & Lounge in Dracut is closing after more than 50 years in business. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/07/lo-kai-restaurant-lounge-in-dracut-is.html

#restaurant #dracut

Ugh, this was so frustrating!

https://yano.me/2026/04/ubuntu-not-shutting-down-gracefully/

#Ubuntu #Linux #dracut #OpenSource #FOSS #Ubuntu2604 #MollyGuard #reboot #shutdown #restart

Ubuntu 25.10 added Dracut to default installs, but what does it mean for you? I take a sideways look at this foundational swap…
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/what-is-dracut-ubuntu?v1 #dracut #ubuntu #linux

Huh. #Debian will be switching to #dracut for its default initramfs image builder for forky (Debian 14). I did not see this coming. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1114857

"dracut is a powerful tool used in Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions to create and manage initramfs images—the initial RAM filesystem used during system boot. Unlike older tools like mkinitrd, dracut uses a modular approach, allowing you to build minimal or specialized initramfs tailored to your system."

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/%F0%9F%A7%B1-building-better-initramfs-a-deep-dive-into-dracut-on-fedora-rhel/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #dracut

Fedora 43 to Use Zstd Compression for Faster Boot and Smaller Initrd #fedora43 #zstd #initrd #initramfs #fastboot #linux #dracut
https://ostechnix.com/fedora-43-initrd-zstd-compression/

Installing #VoidLinux is one thing, but documenting it is key. I'm working on #dracut hooks to automatically create and sign the #unifiedkernelimage. I've already done #FullDiskEncryption (including /boot)

The best thing is that i can lookup most of the stuff on the #ArchLinux #wiki (except #systemd stuff). I like #runit, though i'm not used to it yet.

I can also fix or reinstall the OS how much i want because of my separate /home partition. This level of customization and control is so cool.

I'm already excited to #automate the base system installation using #Ansible.

#linux #unix #void #customization #secureboot #automation

I have to come clean, this was a half-truth. It was a USB floppy drive exposed over the network with NVMe over TCP.

I've opened a #dracut PR to add the target mode as an optional initrd target. https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/pull/1319

Interesting! #dracut #ubuntu

Dracut will be supported in Ubuntu 25.04 - Project Discussion / Foundations - Ubuntu Community Hub

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/dracut-will-be-supported-in-ubuntu-25-04/56556

> Following Please try out dracut and the specification [Spec] Switch to Dracut we are going to support Dracut as alternative to initramfs-tools as initrd generation tool in Ubuntu 25.04 (plucky). We want to make Dracut the default in the following Ubuntu 25.10. […]

Oops! Bloody hell....some #rust fanboy/fangirl messed with some core system package and dish out half-arsed version , which essentially failed ....heck

Damnit! I have nothing against the new surge of Rust ...but for fuck's sake ....stop spoiling

#linuxadmin #rust #dracut #gentoo #opensource #operatingsystem

Context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/1jrnw1s/dracut_has_rust_dependency_from_when_and_why/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Ubuntu 25.10 will use Dracut

While Ubuntu 25.04 is still ongoing development, there has been progress in switching from initramfs-tools to Dracut. Those tools both handle initrd generation for booting into the Linux kernel in preparation for the full system boot. The Ubuntu engineers are working hard to migrate such tool to Dracut to ensure better bootstrapping by reducing hard-coded logic as much as possible.

Initially, Ubuntu 25.04 would have used Dracut as the initrd generator, but the work wasn’t complete yet, so the Ubuntu engineers have delayed the migration to after Ubuntu 25.04 gets released so that the next version of Ubuntu uses Dracut completely.

However, you have an opportunity to try out Dracut in Ubuntu 25.04 when it gets released. This is so that you can provide feedback to the Ubuntu team about your experience with the Dracut integration.

Ubuntu 25.04 will be the last version that uses initramfs-tools as the default initrd generator, with the October release of Ubuntu being the first version that uses Dracut. This is going to be exciting news for the next year’s Ubuntu LTS release that will be out in the next April.

#2504 #2510 #Dracut #Initramfs #InitramfsTools #Initrd #news #Plucky #PluckyPuffin #Puffin #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2504 #Ubuntu2504Plucky #Ubuntu2504PluckyPuffin #Ubuntu2510 #update

In case anyone else has the wrong keymap in #Dracut on #Gentoo with #openrc as well – add the following line to a .conf file in /etc/dracut.conf.d:

i18n_vars="/etc/conf.d/keymaps:keymap-KEYMAP,extended_keymaps-EXT_KEYMAPS /etc/conf.d/consolefont:consolefont-FONT,consoletranslation-FONT_MAP"

There is a similar example in the docs somewhere. However, it has all the variable names of the /etc/conf.d files in uppercase, while they should be lowercase (as they actually are in the files).

Coming from Debian, even 10 years later, I'm still sad that updating a Fedora package that puts things in the initramfs does not trigger re-generation of said initramfs, leaving you with unfixed bugs until the next kernel upgrade. And it even seems to be an intentional decision.

#dracut #fedora #rpm

Done! It went smoothly!!!

#Gentoo #installkernel #UKI #EFISTUB #Dracut

Can anyone explain the advantages of using #dracut over #mkinitcpio on #arch #linux ? Assuming there are any of course

Google Drive Now Bootable https://hackaday.com/2024/07/02/google-drive-now-bootable/ #googledrive #LinuxHacks #filesystem #initramfs #bootable #dracut #linux #boot #fuse

Booting Linux Off of Google Drive
https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
#ycombinator #linux #fuse #drive #google #boot #dracut #initramfs

hwdb.bin was not present in my initramfs with dracut 101, with version 102 it is, removing it from the initramfs generated with dracut 102 brings me back to the "working" state.

#linux #archlinux #dracut

I'm a bit puzzled that with linux 6.9.3 and dracut 101 I can boot just fine, and only changing to dracut 102 I have to add `pci=nommconf` to be able to detect and use my nvme disk.

#linux #archlinux #dracut

@jrredho

Quick update. I found a solution. I couldn't rebuild the initramfs for one kernel, but I was able to rebuild it for all kernels with the following command in rescue mode:

# 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚞𝚝 --𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎-𝚊𝚕𝚕 --𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎

After that I was able to log in to my machine with no issues and no data loss.

#fedora #linux #initramfs #dracut

Today's new-to-me #music discovery: Ron Lessard's #Experimental / #noise / #electronics label/physical storefront #RRRecords - in #LowellMA

His shop is open 6 days a week, and has thousands of #records in stock.

Here's an interview with him highlighting music by bands in the Greater Lowell Area (eg. #Dracut #Tewksbury) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjfE2RWwDeM #BostonMusic #Boston

This time, it boots right into the #Dracut emergency shell, telling me it generated "#rdsosreport.txt"