Not generating initramfs.img and vmlinuz in /boot directory

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See man dracut
It has examples:

dracut foobar.img 2.6.40-1.rc5.f20
dracut --kver 2.6.40-1.rc5.f20

There is also the note:

If <image> is omitted or empty, depending on bootloader specification, the default location can be /efi/<machine-id>/<kernel-version>/initrd, /boot/<machine-id>/<kernel-version>/initrd, /boot/efi/<machine-id>/<kernel-version>/initrd, /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/initrd or/boot/initramfs-<kernel-version>.img.

The /usr/bin/dracut is a Bash script and seems to have something like:

        if [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/efi/loader/entries || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/efi/loader/entries ]] \
            && [[ $MACHINE_ID ]] \
            && [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/efi/${MACHINE_ID} || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/efi/${MACHINE_ID} ]]; then
            # 1
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/efi/${MACHINE_ID}/${kernel}/initrd"
        elif [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/loader/entries || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/loader/entries ]] \
            && [[ $MACHINE_ID ]] \
            && [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/${MACHINE_ID} || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/${MACHINE_ID} ]]; then
            # 2
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/boot/${MACHINE_ID}/${kernel}/initrd"
        elif [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/efi/loader/entries || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/efi/loader/entries ]] \
            && [[ $MACHINE_ID ]] \
            && [[ -d "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/efi/${MACHINE_ID} || -L "$dracutsysrootdir"/boot/efi/${MACHINE_ID} ]]; then
            # 3
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/boot/efi/${MACHINE_ID}/${kernel}/initrd"
        elif [[ -f "$dracutsysrootdir"/lib/modules/${kernel}/initrd ]]; then
            # 4
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/lib/modules/${kernel}/initrd"
        elif [[ -e $dracutsysrootdir/boot/vmlinuz-${kernel} ]]; then
            # 5
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/boot/initramfs-${kernel}.img"
        elif [[ -z $dracutsysrootdir ]] \
            && [[ $MACHINE_ID ]] \
            && mountpoint -q /efi; then
            # 6
            outfile="/efi/${MACHINE_ID}/${kernel}/initrd"
        elif [[ -z $dracutsysrootdir ]] \
            && [[ $MACHINE_ID ]] \
            && mountpoint -q /boot/efi; then
            # 7
            outfile="/boot/efi/${MACHINE_ID}/${kernel}/initrd"
        else
            # 8
            outfile="$dracutsysrootdir/boot/initramfs-${kernel}.img"
        fi

The Rocky default is apparently #5. The #2 would be ok too.

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