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.
{^_^}
