[Bug 2142775] Re: Please make dracut the default initrd generator

Benjamin Drung 2142775 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Mar 10 11:04:24 UTC 2026


s390x z/VM or LPAR installs still have initramfs-tools installed. A test
revealed that multipath-tools-boot and cryptsetup-initramfs both have
initramfs-tools as first option. We should change both to pull in dracut
as default.

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Title:
  Please make dracut the default initrd generator

Status in bcache-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in cryptsetup package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in multipath-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in sg3-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Dracut is the new default initrd generator in Ubuntu (see #2121920 or
  https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/spec-switch-to-dracut/54776 for
  example).

  So please change recommending "initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool"
  to "dracut | linux-initramfs-tool".

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