Dracut Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to dracut

systemd

510 12,457 10.0 C dracut VS systemd

The systemd System and Service Manager
mkinitcpio

11 194 9.1 Shell dracut VS mkinitcpio

Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)
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squashfs-tools-ng

7 187 8.0 C dracut VS squashfs-tools-ng

A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
yubikey-full-disk-encryption

16 772 0.0 Shell dracut VS yubikey-full-disk-encryption

Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
zfsbootmenu

161 756 9.2 Shell dracut VS zfsbootmenu

ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
torrust-tracker

4 322 9.5 Rust dracut VS torrust-tracker

A modern and feature-rich (private) BitTorrent tracker.
wireguard-initramfs

10 275 4.7 Shell dracut VS wireguard-initramfs

Use dropbear over wireguard.
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ramroot

5 254 0.0 Shell dracut VS ramroot

Load root file system to ram during boot.
genext2fs

1 50 0.0 C dracut VS genext2fs

genext2fs - ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems
dracut-sshd

7 203 4.6 Shell dracut VS dracut-sshd

Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut

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Locked root partition
1 project | /r/debian | 21 Jun 2023
ZFSBootMenu boots root dataset just fine but doesn't ask for password even though it's encrypted???
1 project | /r/zfs | 21 Apr 2023

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.
Can't turn off the machine after install with full disk encryption
1 project | /r/voidlinux | 22 Mar 2023

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.
What happened to the bugzilla 1529311? it's about AMD microcode
1 project | /r/Fedora | 18 Feb 2023

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
/boot/initramfs.. and the early boot process
1 project | /r/voidlinux | 27 Oct 2022

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.
Can bluetooth keyboards work to enter luks password?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 15 Oct 2022

dracut can build initrd with bluetooth support
Has anyone setup a private tracker?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Oct 2022

The documentation is super minimal, but the livenet module supports torrent files using the live:torrent: URL syntax.
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)
1 project | /r/linuxhardware | 25 Jul 2022

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
1 project | /r/openSUSE | 30 Jun 2022
Dracut kernel_cmdline not working with LVM on LUKS.
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 7 May 2022

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.
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