Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote:
> > On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where >> /etc/fstab is located ? > > The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. > > I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. > >> BTW: Yes, I will boot next time with a LABEL entry in the kernels boot >> option, but I still don't want a kernel that assigns devices in random >> order. > > As long as you can boot, you should seriously stop caring. That's it: I cannot! At least not always. > If you're concerned about mounting USB sticks or memory cards then use > udev rules to distinguish them. > > Regarding the booting, and having to change what's in your grub.conf, I'd > assume this is a one-off change - you'll change grub.conf to point to the > new /dev/sdX and that will require no maintenance in the forseeable > future. But that's the point: What is X? It is constantly changing with 2.6.36! > GRUB can do labels, but it needs an initrd or initramfs, I think. I could not get that working until now ... - Jörg
