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Re: make-kpkg and initrd



Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:20:18AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>> BZZT! WRONG!
>> 
>> This will never work.  Period.  You *MUST* have a unique initrd for *EACH*
>> kernel.
> 
> Why does debian use initrd? (just currious)  I manually do all my kernel
> stuff, without kernel-package, and without initrd, and I've never hard a
> problem.

If your root is on an LVM you need to use an initrd to kickstart the
LVM subsystem before mounting root.

As for a "normal" debian kernel, no clue.

-- 
-rupa



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