On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:59:57PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote > You cannot use labels with the root= parameters. That was provided as > some kind of hack a few years ago but has been removed since. You either > need to use an initramfs for labels or resort to UUIDs. See > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5af921ec02333e943efb59aca4f56b78fc0e100
Thanks. I had asked earlier in the thread if there are situations where I can use one, but not the other. Given your answer, I'll go with UUID for future installs. That answers the question for fstab. BTW, I did some Google research and found that LILO can boot with UUID. See... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming The important thing to note is... - do *NOT* use root configuration option; e.g. "root=blah_blah_blah" - instead, specify root in the append line; e.g... append = "video=640x480 root=blah_blah_blah" -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
