Re: COMPILING AND CONFIGURING A NEW KERNEL.

[johnrobertbanks]

> It is quite possible to build a kernel that has all the drivers built-in,
> but still require an initrd file.  For instance, if you have a recent
> RedHat or Fedora system, '/' may very well be on an LVM partition, which
> means you need an initrd to do a 'lvm varyonvg' before mounting your real
> root filesystem will work....

Thanks Valdis,

Thats interesting, I didn't know that. 

Do you know if deb-pkg and rpm-pkg take care of creating the initrd
automatically.

I seriously doubt they do.

Actually, I guess I only need to compile another kernel to find out.

John.
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