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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, pradeep singh wrote:

> 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?

um ... no, i think i was just being stupid.  never mind.

rday
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