On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> Does >> >> boot=LABEL=<boot_device_label> >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all?
I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing "root=" to the kernel. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/23010-root-label-grub-conf.html http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2005-01/0026.html However: http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Using--%22root%3DLABEL%3Dxxxx%22-in-grub.conf-p21909347.html http://tinyurl.com/2u4srg4 Stroller.
