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.TH MKDUMRD 8 "Fri Feb 9 2007"
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.SH NAME
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mkdumprd \- creates initial ramdisk images for kdump crash recovery 
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBmkdumprd\fR [OPTION]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBmkdumprd\fR creates an initial ram file system for use in conjunction with
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the booting of a kernel within the kdump framework for crash recovery.
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\fBmkdumprds\fR purpose is to create an initial ram filesystem capable of copying
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the crashed systems vmcore image to a location specified in \fI/etc/kdump.conf 
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\fBmkdumprd\fR interrogates the running system to understand what modules need to
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be loaded in the initramfs (based on configuration retrieved from
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\fI/etc/kdump.conf)\fR
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\fBmkdumprd\fR add a new \fBdracut\fR module 99kdumpbase and use \fBdracut\fR
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utility to generate the initramfs.
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\fBmkdumprd\fR was not intended for casual use outside of the service
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initialization script for the kdump utility, and should not be run manually.  If
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you require a custom kdump initramfs image, it is suggested that you use the
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kdump service infrastructure to create one, and then manually unpack, modify and
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repack the image.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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All options here are passed to dracut directly, please refer \fBdracut\fR docs
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for the info.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR dracut (8)