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• General Troubleshooting
• VirtualBox Troubleshooting
• Recovery
• GRUB
• dracut
• Broken Boot
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dracut, an initrd generator

Introduction

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Installation

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends dracut systemd-cryptsetup

Bugs

• Note: If bugs are closed, it does not automatically mean that the fix has already reached the user's distribution's APT repository or that the bug has been fixed indeed. In some cases, bugs that were once fixed have been reverted by upstream and re-introduced. This makes finding out the current status of bugs very difficult.
• dracut (abandoned)
  • https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/2520
  • https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/2437
• dracut-ng upstream bug reports:
  • With encrypted root + unencrypted boot + systemd, dracut may generate an initrd incapable of decrypting the root disk without showing any warnings or errors #684
• Debian upstream bug reports:
  • unbootable system after installing dracut on a standard Debian installation - #1
  • unbootable system after installing dracut on a standard Debian installation - #2

Resources

• https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dracut/tree/debian/99-ubuntu.conf

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