Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:54:06 +0100 | From | Gabor Gombas <> | Subject | Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. |
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> That's simply not true, at least not for Debian. If you actually use the > distro tools [1] the only assumptions are made at kernel *installation* > time, not at kernel build time.
And that's why network-booted diskless clients and virtual guests have all sort of useless modules loaded; the HW where the kernel package was installed in this case is very different from the HW where the kernel will run. If only there were a switch to prohibit ever looking at the current machine's configuration when generating the initramfs...
> I've been using initramfs-tools generated initrds for years without > problems, and that includes "root on LVM on LUKS encrypted partition" > and "root on LVM on RAID" setups.
I've tried a couple of times to use a Debian-built initramfs with a custom built kernel. The kernel worked fine without an initramfs (it had everything built in), but it did not boot with the initramfs.
Gabor
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