Someone made a new initrd creation script and posted it here: http://www.poochiereds.net/svn/lvm2/ I can't guarentee it'll work, but i've heard good things about it. Use it against the 2.6.5 kernel you compiled.
Well, I did finally did get it to work. Quite a strenuous road, though. For others that may google later, here are some of the things I ran into, and their solutions:
1) There was no console. The script created /dev/consoleonly, but I had & needed /dev/console.
2) "No space left on device" The initrd ran out of inodes during creation. Presumably because MKDEV on my system creates very, very many items for /dev (2601 /dev/tty* and 1728 /dev/sd* for instance)
3) MKDEV takes a -d option on my RH9 system telling it where to put the files. Instead, the script cd-ed to the directory and expected them to be put in ./
4) fsck.ext3 failed during boot. I discovered that adding " fastboot" as a parameter to the kernel allowed me to get past that point and still end up in a 2.6.5 kernel, so I could run "lvm vgmknodes" that apparently created what I needed, so that I could get past the fsck hurdle, even without " fastboot". (Took me a while to figure *that* one out! :-D)
I've created a new version (incl. svn diff) of the script here: http://wwww.morch.com/postings/lvm2/
Sincerely,
Peter
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