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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:25:31 -0700
From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
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On 12/10/05, Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Jim Burwell wrote:
> > One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff
> > up and running during boot. I found the easiest way to do this was to
> > use genkernel. Here's are some quick notes on how I got this working
> > using the gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 kernel:
>
> Or just compile everything you need into the kernel. Something genkernel is
> perfectly capable of doing.

While you can compile all of the necessary modules into the kernel, it
is not possible to have root on LVM2 without an initrd/initramfs.

-Richard

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