dracut fails to load required module while rebuilding initramfs
Issue
- After kernel update, newly generated
initramfsimage does not contain many of the modules. While the old kernel'sinitramfsimage shows correct modules in it -
Same issue persists while trying to generate new initramfs image using
dracut -f -vo Contents of
initramfsimage on affected host:[root@testhost broken]# ll bin/ total 0 <---- [root@testhost broken]# ll cmdline/ total 0 <---- [root@testhost broken]#o On a non-affected host
initramfsimage shows lots of binaries present within it:[root@testhost 696-working]# ll bin/ total 1644 [root@testhost 696-working]# ll cmdline/ total 48 [root@testhost]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Device-Mapper-Multipath
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