Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

Bruce Thompson drllama at otherother.com
Thu Dec 11 13:18:33 UTC 2008


On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> Bruce Thompson wrote:
>> Just got home to try it out, that did the trick nicely.
>> BTW for those that may have influence, would it be unreasonable to  
>> expect the default initrd to include usb-storage?
>
> The current approach is to build initramfs images that are tailored  
> to a specific system - only the modules actually required to get the  
> root file system going are included by default.
>
> You can override that using the "--with" option to mkinitrd. I think  
> you can also set this up persistently by adding a "MODULES=" entry  
> to /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd.

Ah! That may be what I need, I'm thinking along the lines of needing  
to remember to re-do mkinitrd every time a new kernel comes out... / 
etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd should render that moot!

Cheers!
Bruce.




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