Re: Dracut fails to boot root-fs

On 10/05/26 at 09:36, Dale wrote:
>On 5/10/26 7:09 PM, Carsten Hauck wrote:
>>So it took me much longer than I hoped to find a couple of hours to sit
>>down and experiment. My approach was chaotic and fruitless, I probably
>>messed up the combination of dracut and grub configs.
>>Thank you for bringin  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rootfs_encryption to
>>my attention again. I finally cheated and did what I should have done
>>some months ago. I abandoned dracut for ugRD. It was a matter of
>>recompiling sys-kernel/installkernel with changed USE-flags and doing an
>>emerge --config *dist-kernel* in the chroot. After rebooting I could log
>>into my new system without a problem. So there is a bit of hurt pride
>>that I didn't manage to beat dracut into submission, but I am quit happy
>>with my working laptop now.  I am still convinced that I did a tiny and
>>stupid mistake in configuring dracut, I might never find out.
>>
>
>
>I'm just curious.  There was a recent change to dracut with version 
>111.  If you are using that version, that change could make it not 
>find your root partition.  From my understanding it leaves out the 
>root= info.
>
>If you still have some info surviving the switch to the new method, 
>you may be able to determine if that is the problem.  At least then 
>you will know.
>
>It could be that it is not related but just thought I would mention.
>
>Dale
>
>:-)  :-)
>

I have read your thread with interest but with little time to spare for 
debugging I have been sitting on my problem for several months now. So 
no, I was not affected by that change. Maybe when I have more free time 
at hand I will try dracut again from scratch. On the other hand, ugRD 
just worked so beautifully and simple, so no reason to look back. 

Carsten