Re: [linux-lvm] booting a dm+lvm2 kernel

[Kjartan Reynir Hauksson <krh os is>]

>are you running a particular distro? if so telling which one it is could
>be useful in gifing you the right hints.

I using Mandrake 9.2 with mkinitrd 3.5.15.1 and a patched lilo 22.5.8

>your distro probably has an mkinitrd command, so you would need to patch
>it to support lvm2 if it does not already.
>you might also need to patch your sysinit boot script

Could you be a little more specific regarding the sysinit boot scripts as
it's probably the most confusing part of the process.

>you will also need patching lilo to understand device-mapper, else it
>will not run anymore on your dm patched kernel (see
>http://www.saout.de/misc/)

 Thanks
-Kjartan