On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 18:04 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:52 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > If I "steal" the initrd from the stock 2122 kernel, the machine boots > > > > fine. How can I make an initrd for a kernel with no modules and no > > > > module support? One that just contains the functionality to boot an LVM > > > > system? > > > > What's the contents of the "init" script in your initrd? > > I don't have one. I'm using the stock 2122 initrd, which is the same as > yours. And it works, despite all the insmods that fail, they are not > needed anyway. > > What I'm after is a mkinitrd that will run and put all those bits into > an initrd init script regardless of whether the kernel has modules or > module support. > > In short, loading modules isn't the only reason for using an initrd, but > mkinitrd acts as if it is. Does the --builtin=module option to mkinitrd not do that? Paul,
