[CentOS] INITRD_MODULES

Wed Apr 29 20:00:28 UTC 2020
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 29.04.2020 um 21:48 schrieb Jerry Geis:
> I am trying to take a CentOS 7 img and get hyperv to boot.
> 
> First step.
> qemu-img convert "CentOS7.img" -O vhdx -o subformat=dynamic "CentOS7.vhdx"
> 
> after adding new hyper-v I get dracut-timeout...
> So doing some searching it says add hv_vmbus hv_netvsc hv_storvsc to
> INITRD_MODULES.
> 
> which doesnt really exist any more in CentOS 7.
> 
> I did find /etc/dracut.conf and add_drivers...
> I uncommented the line for '#add_drivers += "" ' added the above modules
> and then ran:
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Why didn't you run dracut to create the new initramfs image file?

> Then redid the convert above... Hyper-V still gives me dracut-timeout
> errors.
> 
> Thoughts ? Did I miss something ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jerry

Alexander