Changeset 20598a7

Timestamp:

11/10/2019 09:43:02 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 9.1, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

0319fff

Parents:

ad214f4

Message:

Clarify dependecies for mkinitramfs, and add a note about using a full disk as
a voume group on lvm

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22364 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

postlfs/filesystems

Files:

• aboutlvm.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• initramfs.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/filesystems/aboutlvm.xml

@@ -75 +75 @@
   <screen><userinput>pvcreate /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb2</userinput></screen>
 
+  <note><para>A full disk can be used as part of a physical volume, but
+  beware that the <command>pvcreate</command> command will destroy any
+  partition information on that disk.</para></note>
+
   <para>Next create a volume group named lfs-lvm:</para>
 

postlfs/filesystems/initramfs.xml

@@ -393 +393 @@
     </para>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Other Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+    <para role="optional">
+      <xref role="runtime" linkend="lvm2"/> and/or
+      <xref role="runtime" linkend="mdadm"/> must be installed before
+      generating the initramfs, if the system partition uses them.
+
+    </para>
+
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
       <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/initramfs"/>