Is there any way to specify a filesystem label for Grub, in particular for the root entry? Note that I am not looking for how to do it for my OS - that already works fine.
I couldn't find anything in the doc, and past questions seem to have gone unanswered such as this one: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-07/msg00088.html At the moment I have this: title Gentoo root (hd1,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 real_root=LABEL=nforce_root vga=791 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.19-gentoo-r4 I'd like to replace the root (hd1,0) bit with something like: root (LABEL=nforce_boot). I have 3 different chips doing hard drives in my machine (two different ones for SATA, one for PATA) each of which has a number of controllers on it. If all are enabled, it becomes no fun at all to work out exactly what drives get mapped to, and it can change as drives are unplugged and replugged. I also considered the "find" command. eg I could put a sentinel file in the correct partition and let Grub search to find that. But I couldn't figure out how to make that part of the normal boot process as above. Roger _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub