Recently we migrated from centos7 to rocky8 and observed this behavior.
Whenever the server rebooted (normal mode not rescue mode) , we can see first it loaded in rescue kernel then normal mode.
1–> Welcome to Rocky Linux 8.9 (Green Obsidian) dracut-049-228.git20230802.el8 (Initramfs)!
2–>Welcome to Rocky Linux 8.9 (Green Obsidian)!
Though we have not observed any functional impact but want to understand if this an intended behavior or we are missing something.
On the surface, this does not seem to be normal, but it may be. If you are not seeing any issues beyond this and you feel that it is operating normally, there’s nothing more to do.
By migrate do you mean “upgrade”? If so, upgrades are not supported by the project. If it was an upgrade, that might answer the behavior you may be seeing.
Rocky Linux 8.9 is end of life. Please update to 8.10 by running dnf update.
See the version guide for more information.
After looking for myself, it does appear to be normal. To be honest, I don’t particularly remember this as I don’t watch the boot messages often.
That should be the initial ramdisk before switching into the actual system if I remember correctly.
Thanks for the update.
yes its an upgrade from CentOS 7 to rocky8 but we are observing this behavior on reboot also.
But your explanation gave me the information I am looking for.
just to confirm you saw this during upgrade or reboot ?
IMHO, the word “upgrade” can be misunderstood. After all, dnf up and dnf update are aliases for dnf upgrade
If I had CentOS 7, wiped it, and installed fresh copy of Rocky 8, then that would be an upgrade too.
In-place conversion of files of one distro (e.g. Rocky 8) into files of another (e.g. Rocky 9) is only one form of “upgrade”. (The form that Rocky does not support.)
Do the “Welcome to ${distro}” messages get logged anywhere?
I can see some in /var/log/boot.log, but I have a feeling that some are missing as each entry seems to start like:
------------ Wed Aug 14 10:44:22 EEST 2024 ------------
[ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
This was on a reboot on a Rocky Linux 8 system (brand new, clean install).
yes “Welcome to ${distro}” gets printed after Welcome to Rocky Linux 8.9 (Green Obsidian) dracut-049-228.git20230802.el8 (Initramfs)!