lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 06:15:22 UTC 2004


Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> AHHH, but in order to be that far down the road, you would already have
> booted your lvm root partition, thus negating the need to require lvm as
> a dependency of mkinitrd.  So, since you seem to be defending the
> practice, why again is lvm a dependency of mkinitrd?

Because, without it, you'll never get the initrd in the first place.

See the bug quoted in the other mail.

Bill





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