How do I disable the creation of the rescue boot image on CentOS?

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To make a long story short, my (CentOS 7) server's /boot is too small (100MiB) to hold 2 kernels plus the automatically generated rescue image. I want to avoid the hassle of repartitioning and reinstalling my server by preventing the rescue image from being generated. This would leave enough space for at least 2 kernels, and I can still use my hoster's netboot rescue solution should it be needed.

(I know the only 'right' way to deal with this is to fix my partition scheme, but considering the downtime involved with that I wanted to try a more pragmatic solution first)

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 17 '15 at 02:36

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Open the file /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-rescue.conf and change

dracut_rescue_image="yes"

to

dracut_rescue_image="no"

This seems to be the only way for CentOS 7.

edited Dec 17 '15 at 02:36

Braiam

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answered Dec 17 '15 at 02:32

Robin Dong

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See @Tomek's answer below for a simpler, more correct solution. – nturner Aug 28 '17 at 23:16

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '16 at 13:10

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Remove dracut-config-rescue package:

# yum remove dracut-config-rescue

answered Sep 20 '16 at 13:10

Tomek

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This should be the accepted answer, as it is the correct solution. – nturner Aug 28 '17 at 23:14

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 19 '15 at 15:00

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To answer my own question;

The rescue image is automatically generated by dracut after a new kernel is installed, and this can be prevented by creating a file under /etc/dracut.conf.d/, containing:

dracut_rescue_image="no"

(The file must have a '.conf' extension)

answered Jan 19 '15 at 15:00

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And, to expand on my answer, even with an alternative 'rescue' solution, it may be unwise to disable this, as the rescue kernel/initramfs are more than just for fixing a broken system. Newer RHEL/CentOS/Fedora releases only include the kernel modules for the hardware of the currently running system for newly installed kernels, and the 'rescue' kernel can then be used to update these if hardware is added or changed. – hnsr Jan 19 '15 at 15:04
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I did it as above and still appearing the rescue boot option, do you know anything else on this? – felipekm May 26 '15 at 21:21

How do I disable the creation of the rescue boot image on CentOS?

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