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

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On Sunday 04 May 2003 19:57, Robert P. J. Day uttered:
> well, i just this minute noticed the "lvmcreate_initrd" command, which
> is not mentioned in the kernel doc file initrd.txt, so i'm about to
> check it out and see what it offers above and beyond "mkinitrd",
> which seemed to work even though my root filesystem was on a LV.
>
> just another interesting command that didn't seem to be documented
> very much that looks like it might be useful, although i'm still
> not sure for what.

Actually, it's not very usefull, all it ended up doing is running itself out 
of space in the ramdisk.  I have had no problem with mkinitrd when my / 
partition is an LVM partition.  Sometimes you just have to prod mkinitrd to 
include the lvm module.

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