On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:21:50AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:06 +0100, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:47 -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
> > It is probably worth noting that if someone were to run a
> kernel
> > update with a package manager after getting this working
> (using
> > information
> > from later posts in this thread), they would need to do a
> manual
> > mkinitrd.
>
> No. If you boot off /dev/vda and update the kernel, mkinitrd
> will build
> an initrd containing the virtio modules.
>
> Well, that may depend if you use mkinitrd or mkinitramfs, and your
> distribution mkinitramfs or mkinitrd may not be checking which device
> type he's working on.
May be adding virtio disk drivers to initrd files always may help all users.
I don't know, if there is anything, why initrd have to be small.
SAL