dracut
dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure (by dracutdevs)
genext2fs
genext2fs - ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems (by bestouff)
| dracut | genext2fs | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 1 | |
| 524 | 51 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dracut
Posts with mentions or reviews of dracut.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-09.
- Locked root partition
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ZFSBootMenu boots root dataset just fine but doesn't ask for password even though it's encrypted???
Upstream has been telling people not to use a central configuration file for 8 years so nobody should really be putting anything in there to begin with. One can make a reasonable argument that ZFSBootMenu ought to override the configuration file just like it overrides the configuration drop-in directory, but another can make a reasonable argument that people who really know what they want may wish to load common configuration options for both their system and ZBM images in /etc/dracut.conf.
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Can't turn off the machine after install with full disk encryption
I absolutely have no idea... Seems like somehow something is not supported. You should create an issue in the dracut repo: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues. That's something you should probably everywhere like I did in my issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/11ofqt2/booting_with_dinit. The void community can sometimes be really unhelpful so I hope you will get help there.
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What happened to the bugzilla 1529311? it's about AMD microcode
bug 1529311 is closed as duplicate of bug 1476039 which was fixed by https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0964 included in dracut-033-535.el7. These patches were mentioned in 1476039: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/19453dc8744e6a59725c43b61b2e3db01cb4c57c and https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/261. Also it was mentioned that it was fixed in
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/boot/initramfs.. and the early boot process
It's a shell script that sets up some basics and runs an event loop to run hooks that eventually lead to the availability of your root device.
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Can bluetooth keyboards work to enter luks password?
dracut can build initrd with bluetooth support
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Has anyone setup a private tracker?
The documentation is super minimal, but the livenet module supports torrent files using the live:torrent: URL syntax.
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Are cheap wireless keyboards from Lazada and Shopee compatible for Linux? (POV: I live in the Philippines and I have to do online shopping cuz of the pandemic)
Nope, all these environments are missing initial device configuration required for keyboard to be able to connect. (There was an attempt to add bluetooth support into dracut, that didn't go well)
- Failed to Start setup virtual console
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Dracut kernel_cmdline not working with LVM on LUKS.
I get exactly this error. So it turns out, the decryption depends on a systemd unitsystemd-cryptsetup-generator, which will not read any embedded cmdline parameters, only ones passed in the commandline so when the commandline parameter is asking to decrypt things, it is not generated.
genext2fs
Posts with mentions or reviews of genext2fs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
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Tar is an ill-specified format
I also have written my own tar parser, in https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs - oh boy it's not easy ! My parser is of course incomplete and won't handle corner cases, which are really plenty. In the end I added libarchive as an alternative to my hand-rolled code because that's how it works best.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dracut and genext2fs you can also consider the following projects:
mkinitcpio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
elks - Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
IoTGoat - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
exfatprogs - exFAT filesystem userspace utilities
genimage - tool to generate multiple filesystem and flash images from a tree
wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.
dosfstools - dosfstools consists of the programs mkfs.fat, fsck.fat and fatlabel to create, check and label file systems of the FAT family.