Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
If you are creating a software RAID array later, you may have to rebuilt the initrd with additional drivers. But if you are moving your root file system to a RAID array, you are going to have to make a lot of changes to the system, so that is the time to add the additional drivers to initrd.
What I've sometimes done is a fresh install on the new hardware (raid, different disk controller, etc.), and then kept only the contents of /boot perhaps /etc/modprobe.conf, overwriting the rest with a copy of a system from some other machine and adjusting fstab and grub.conf by hand, but it seems like there should be an easier way to make an initrd for new hardware.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
