Issued:

2011-01-13

Updated:

2011-01-13

RHEA-2011:0141 - dracut enhancement update

Synopsis

dracut enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated dracut packages that add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The dracut packages provide an event-driven initramfs generator infrastructure based around udev. The initramfs is loaded together with the kernel at boot time and initializes the system, so it can read and boot from the root partition.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The dracut packages have been updated to support the new kernel boot option, "rdinsmodpost=[module]", which allows a user to specify a kernel module to be loaded after all device drivers are loaded automatically. (BZ#661298)

Users of dracut are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• dracut-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-fips-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-tools-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-generic-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-kernel-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-network-004-33.2.el6_0.noarch.rpm
• dracut-004-33.2.el6_0.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 661298

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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