Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] New News Item: 2026-xx-yy-dracut-hostonly-cmdline

On 5/7/26 7:26 AM, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> Thanks for the advance notice. A few funny bits:
>
> - my install notes don't say anything about doing anything special for
> dracut + grub. I enabled the use flags on installkernel and then
> emerge'd it, and I have no /etc/dracut.conf.d to speak of.
> - lsinitrd on all of the recent initramfs I have for this system shows
> _nothing_ on the dracut cmdline (or in etc/cmdline.d of the image). It
> _does_ show an "Arguments" line with, e.g., --kernel-image
> '/usr/src/linux-6.18.26-gentoo-dist/arch/x86/boot/bzImage' --force
> --verbose --no-uefi
> - /etc/default/grub has one change I made a long time ago
> (reboot=acpi); not required for boot, though, and not "present in
> dracut but missing in grub"
> - /proc/cmdline has "BOOT_IMAGE=… root=… ro reboot=acpi", and I
> couldn't figure out where it was coming from until I realized that the
> default /etc/grub.d/10_linux spits that out into the menu entries
> (which I can see in /boot/grub/grub.cfg).
>
> So, it_seems_ a vanilla setup is just fine? When I do the upgrade to
> dracut-111, I'll check again before rebooting, though.
>
> -- D. Ben Knoble

I think I had to add something to mine for my hardware which is why mine 
has been changed.  Some may can use the defaults and not change anything 
and it work fine tho.  I guess you fell into that group. Lucky I guess.  
LOL

Given this is such a critical thing, I wanted to be sure myself but also 
wanted to make others aware that this was coming.  I sometimes wish they 
would post the final news item to this list even if it is posted several 
days or more before the news item goes live.  We will see it when we 
sync and all but still, one might have a reason to wait if they know 
before hand that it is coming.  I guess that might be overkill tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)