On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: >>> On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>>> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That >>>>> way, you >>>>> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to >>>>> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf. >>>> >>>> Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure >>>> /etc/fstab to >>>> use those. >>>> Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names. >>> >>> I second Joost's recommendation. I don't think you can use labels on the >>> kernel command line, so your grub will have to know for sure which >>> device to boot. >> >> Actually, you can: >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html >> >> (Read the section below "Use a label"): >> >> fstab: >> LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults 1 1 >> LABEL=BOOT /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 >> LABEL=SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0 >> LABEL=HOME /home ext3 nosuid,auto 1 2 > > This syntax never worked here. Always resulted in an unbootable system. > Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably.
What kernel drivers are you using? Here's my fstab on my x64 box that has been booting perfectly for months. And I boot it lots because it's my dev't box: LABEL=boot /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2 LABEL=root / ext3 relatime 0 1 LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 LABEL=usr /usr ext3 relatime 0 2 LABEL=var /var ext3 relatime 0 2 LABEL=opt /opt ext3 relatime 0 2 LABEL=home /home ext3 relatime 0 2
