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Rebuild initial ramdisk image in Linux server – How-To

by Albert
You may need to rebuild initial ramdisk image after adding new hardware or software to server.
  • Create backup as shown below;
cp /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).bak.$(date +%m-%d-%H%M%S).img
  • Use following command to rebuild initramfs
dracut -f -v
  • Make sure /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and /etc/grub2.cfg includes the menu to the new custom initramfs
  • Rebuild grub.cfg;
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/seimaxim/grub.cfg
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