Disabling LVM check/startup on FC2

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon May 24 16:50:45 UTC 2004


Paul R. Ganci wrote:
> The only way I see this issue going away is 
> if the package lvm2-2.00.15-2 is NOT installed if it isn't being used. 
> To that end I tried to remove it:
> 
> ganci at mcduff> rpm --erase lvm2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        lvm2 is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.22-1
> 
> Since I need mkinitrd because I make my own kernels I am stuck. This 
> problem is not a serious one ... just annoying.

Pardon me if I'm being thick, but if you aren't using lvm, why do you
need an initrd?

If you can compile all the modules you need to mount / into the kernel
(I'd argue that they should be there anyway on custom kernels), and you
don't need the initrd to configure your root partition, then you can
just leave the initrd line out of grub althogether.

Which makes everything that much simpler.

Or are you doing something exotic like running a diskless workstation?

James.

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