Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly:
> 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-p > 21909347.html http://tinyurl.com/2u4srg4 > > Stroller. All the major distros I've seen it on also use initrds though (rare in gentoo- land). I have no idea how it all works, I just know how to type it on a RHEL box. Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned that this syntax relies on an initrd, and I suspect he may be correct. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
