Re: shouldn't "mkinitrd" give me LVM support?

["pradeep singh" <2500.pradeep@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/3/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
>   but i thought that "mkinitrd" was supposed to check for whether the
> system was using LVM and would automatically add modules for that to
> the generated initrd.img for the new kernel.
Automatically? How?
Anything which you haven't marked as module in your compilation cannot
be built even for your initrd.
Initrd can take modules only present in your
/lib/modules/kernel-version-you-compiled AFAIK.

Did i misinterpret your question or what?

Thanks

>  i haven't looked at it
> closely (yet), but i could swear that that's how it used to work.
>
>   am i just misremembering?  thanks.
>
> rday
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