How To Install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 is dracut configuration to turn on rescue image generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dracut-config-rescue.x86_64`

This package provides the configuration to turn on the rescue initramfs generation with dracut.

We can use yum to install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64.

Install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64

How To Uninstall dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dracut-config-rescue.x86_64

dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-rescue.conf
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/51-dracut-rescue.install

References

dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-rescue.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.