From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't access disks after install
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:44:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151927043.5235.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060703122147.36b4adef@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:21 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > You're right, that's ONE of the points of using an initramfs.
> Another
> > point would be, that you're able to put / on LVM/Software-RAID.
>
> You don't need an initramfs to use Software RAID for /, as long as the
> necessary modules are built into the kernel. You do need one for LVM.
Why is that? Is it the user-space tools (vgscan, vgchange, etc) needed
to find the volumes at start time?
alan
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-02 16:11 [gentoo-user] Can't access disks after install Alan McKinnon
2006-07-02 17:02 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-07-02 17:13 ` Mick
2006-07-02 18:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-07-03 5:28 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-07-03 7:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-07-03 10:34 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-03 7:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-07-03 10:33 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-03 11:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-03 11:44 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-07-03 13:20 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-03 13:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-03 13:19 ` Alexander Skwar
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