LVM magic in initrd, or "making an initrd without modules"

[Paul Howarth]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:08 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> In short, loading modules isn't the only reason for using an initrd, but
>>> mkinitrd acts as if it is.
>> Does the --builtin=module option to mkinitrd not do that?
> 
> If it had been complaining about certain modules missing I could have
> used this option to tell it to ignore those. But it just says:
> 
> No modules available for kernel "2.6.16-nomod".
> 
> and stops. The kernel file is called vmlinuz-2.6.16-nomod. For some
> reason it called itself (uname -r) "2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.rootkdumpnomod",
> but using that gives the same error.

Try:
# mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.16-nomod

and see if that works any better.

Paul.