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TL;DR

dracut

Generate initramfs images to boot the Linux kernel. Dracut uses options from configuration files in /etc/dracut.conf, /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf and /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/*.conf by default. More information: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/wiki.

  • Generate an initramfs image for the current kernel without overriding any options:

dracut

  • Generate an initramfs image for the current kernel and overwrite the existing one:

dracut --force

  • Generate an initramfs image for a specific kernel:

dracut --kver kernel_version

  • List available modules:

dracut --list-modules

This document was created using the contents of the tldr project.