Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did
opine thusly:
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.
I tried using labels with the old grub a while back and it didn't work.
Labels in fstab works fine tho. We may have to wait on the new grub to
get finished.
Dale
:-) :-)
