Initrds= are not picked up for QemuFirmware=linux

[septatrix]

mkosi commit the issue has been seen with

main

Used host distribution

Fedora 40

Used target distribution

Arch

Linux kernel version used

6.11.6-200.fc40.x86_64

CPU architectures issue was seen on

x86_64

Unexpected behaviour you saw

When using direct kernel boot (i.e. QemuFirmware=linux) any custom build initrds set with Initrd= are not picked up.

I have experienced this when working with mkosi-kernel which uses direct kernel boot extensively

Used mkosi config

No response

mkosi output

The are no warnings because mkosi still starts. However, the qemu cmdline does not contain any "-initrd foobar" flag:

‣ + /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine type=q35,memory-backend=mem -smp 2 -m 4096M -object rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng-pci,rng=rng0,id=rng-device0 -device virtio-balloon,free-page-reporting=on -no-user-config -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=4096M,share=on -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci -accel kvm -device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=253982209,vhostfd=4 -cpu max -nographic -nodefaults -chardev stdio,mux=on,id=console,signal=off -device virtio-serial-pci,id=mkosi-virtio-serial-pci -device virtconsole,chardev=console -mon console -kernel /home/septatrix/Documents/university/semester13/LKP/Lab/mkosi-kernel/mkosi.output/image.vmlinuz -chardev socket,id=sock-b35e25b2ec774548a9d5fa4389c4ae,path=/tmp/mkosi-virtiofsd-7928yvv_/sock-b35e25b2ec774548a9d5fa4389c4ae -device vhost-user-fs-pci,queue-size=1024,chardev=sock-b35e25b2ec774548a9d5fa4389c4ae,tag=root -chardev socket,id=sock-35ae7bf19ecb4b18a8a723b32fe2e1,path=/tmp/mkosi-virtiofsd-k4vh_7y9/sock-35ae7bf19ecb4b18a8a723b32fe2e1 -device vhost-user-fs-pci,queue-size=1024,chardev=sock-35ae7bf19ecb4b18a8a723b32fe2e1,tag=share -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=mkosi -drive if=none,id=scratch,file=/var/tmp/mkosi-scratch-lkzo39b9,format=raw,discard=on,cache.writeback=on,cache.direct=on,cache.no-flush=yes,aio=io_uring -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=scratch -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:firstboot.locale=Qy5VVEYtOA== -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:firstboot.timezone=RXVyb3BlL0Jlcmxpbg== -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:ssh.authorized_keys.root=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 -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:fstab.extra=c2hhcmUgL3Jvb3Qvc2hhcmUgdmlydGlvZnMgeC1pbml0cmQubW91bnQK -smbios type=11,value=io.systemd.credential.binary:vmm.notify_socket=dnNvY2stc3RyZWFtOjI6MjA3NDQxNDI5Ng== -append 'rw systemd.wants=network.target module_blacklist=vmw_vmci systemd.tty.term.hvc0=xterm-256color systemd.tty.columns.hvc0=167 systemd.tty.rows.hvc0=23 ip=enc0:any ip=enp0s1:any ip=enp0s2:any ip=host0:any ip=none loglevel=4 SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 systemd.tty.term.console=xterm-256color systemd.tty.columns.console=167 systemd.tty.rows.console=23 console=hvc0 TERM=xterm-256color enforcing=0 rw systemd.ssh_auto=no init=/init root=root rootfstype=virtiofs systemd.mount-extra=LABEL=scratch:/var/tmp:ext4'