On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:27 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > 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.
Same here, except replace Red Hat with Debian. I only needed to start playing with initrd despite my statically compiling in what a system needs (and only what it needs) when I did #1 and #2. -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph
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