On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll start >> using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but for >> now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd. > > AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UUID? Can grub's device.map use them?
I believe grub uses its own partition scheme (hd(0,0)), so fstab should not matter to it unless you use the root= option. But even with the root= option, grub can understand labels, and so grub2 (I'm using it with labels right now). LILO I don't know, I haven't used it in years. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
