Default initramfs location

Default initramfs location

[Ian Pilcher]

I've recently migrated one of my systems from GRUB to systemd-boot.  As
a result my initramfs is no longer at /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.

Instead, it is at /efi/$(cat /etc/machine-id)/$(uname -r)/initrd.

dracut is still using the old location by default.  (For example, if I
rebuild the initramfs with 'dracut -f', dracut writes the new file at
it's "traditional" location under /boot.)

Is there a configuration option that I can set to make dracut use the
systemd-boot location (or some other way to do it)?

Thanks!

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Re: Default initramfs location

[Andrei Borzenkov]

14.07.2020 21:35, Ian Pilcher пишет:
> I've recently migrated one of my systems from GRUB to systemd-boot.  As
> a result my initramfs is no longer at /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.
> 
> Instead, it is at /efi/$(cat /etc/machine-id)/$(uname -r)/initrd.
> 
> dracut is still using the old location by default.  (For example, if I
> rebuild the initramfs with 'dracut -f', dracut writes the new file at
> it's "traditional" location under /boot.)
> 
> Is there a configuration option that I can set to make dracut use the
> systemd-boot location (or some other way to do it)?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

If you use --uefi parameter dracut defaults to
\EFI\Linux\linix-$kernel-$MACHINE_ID-$BUILD_ID.efi (where BUILD_ID is
from /etc/os-release if present).