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

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 05:20:43 UTC 2004


On Feb 18, 2004, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Because, if you have root on LVM, and then you go and remove the
> tools, you won't be able to boot.

Then you boot off the rescue CD and undo the mess you did before.  Big
deal!

It's not like re-running mkinitrd wouldn't have printed big error
messages and failed before getting you into this situation, is it?

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