Re: why does one need an initrd if using LVM?

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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.

{^_^}





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