On 9/25/07, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you need an initrd for are: > > 1. Encrypted (using dm-crypt) root filesystem with unencrypted /boot. > 2. Root filesystem inside LVM (or an encrypted LVM with root inside it). > 3. Kernel that needs a loadable module to access root filesystem because > the necessary support wasn't compiled-in statically.
#3 would explain my "success." Red Hat compiles ext3 and jbd support as modules. I ALWAYS compile these static. Hence I have never had any problems with initrd. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
