On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:15, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jim Popovitch (jimpop@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > AHHH, but in order to be that far down the road, you would already have > > booted your lvm root partition, thus negating the need to require lvm as > > a dependency of mkinitrd. So, since you seem to be defending the > > practice, why again is lvm a dependency of mkinitrd? > > Because, without it, you'll never get the initrd in the first place. > > See the bug quoted in the other mail. > Well, I think that comment #2 identifies the issue as the kernel install process not accurately determining the components necessary to build initrd. I see the shortcut of just throwing lvm into the mix to 'make it work', I just think that is not the best solution. I would hope that the kernel install process relies on more than just believing that the lvm tools are available just because mkinitrd is installed. Perhaps not. -Jim P.
