From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > (perhaps related to an earlier issue as to why one needs > an initrd when using ext3 ...) > > earlier today, when demonstrating to a class how to rebuild > a kernel, i suggested that one could avoid having to deal with > creating an initrd.img if one built all necessary drivers into > the kernel. > > since we were using ext3 filesystems and logical volumes, > i was very careful to tell everyone to add these features to > their kernel, and not leave them as modules. since they all > did that, i told them to skip building an initrd.img and > just reboot. Check what the student actually built. If you told her to add ext3 and LVM to her build you phrased it wrong. Did she add it as a compiled in part of the kernel or as a module. In either mode they are in the build. If they are modules then the initrd is required, of course. {^_^}