Chris S wrote:
>> The simple truth is: There are no volume groups, there are no block
>> devices at this point and I don't want the installer to bother at all.
>> How can I do this?
>>  
>>
> I assume you are using genkernel to build your initrd?
> Perhaps you can try telling it NOT to include lvm? actually specifying
> to NOT include lvm isn't possible, but rather than:
> genkernel --menuconfig all you could try just the initrd on itself with:
> genkernel initrd (include "--dmraid" if you are using lsr).
> alternately, try bypassing the initrd (assuming all required sata
> drivers are statically compiled into the kernel).
> 

Thanks, there is an undocumented switch "nolvm2" to turn off volume
group scan. Got it all working now. I'm not yet building the final
kernel. Is there a way to build an initrd with genkernel (and I'd need
to integrate a module wich is outside the kernel tree)?

cheers
 Paul
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