Am 05.10.2011 15:29, schrieb Michael A. Koerber:
>> >     > I have found that use of LABEL=FOO in /etc/fstab doesn't always solve
>> >     > the problem of disks being reassigned during boot.
>> > 
>> >     That's because fstab isn't used during boot.  What "root=" setting is
>> >     passed to your kernel by your bootloader?  Is that using /dev/sda1 or
>> >     a label?  In order to use a label, I _think_ you need some special 
>> > magic
>> >     in an initrd (at least that used to be the case according to what I've
>> >     googled).
>> > 
>> > 
>> > That's my doubt. Last time I've read about, you needed some script to
>> > "load" the labels.
>> > 
>> > Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
>>
>> 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
> Just tried root=PARTUUID=....  failed.  Checked my genblk.c and the
> changes don't appear in the 2.6.36 or 2.6.39 kernels on my system.  When
> did (does) the PARTUUID syntax support get released? 
> 
> tnx,
> 
> Mike

2.6.37: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37#line-106
I definitely see the changes in gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r3.

Regards,
Florian Philipp

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