2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > On 2013-07-02, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:15 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> The PARTUUID= parition specifier format is handled directly by kernel > >> code, so I don't see why it should require an initrd (unless the UUID > >> values for MBR partitions aren't actually something the kernel knows > >> about and are something made up from whole cloth by the blkid program) > > > > MBRs don't have PARTUUIDs do they? Don't confuse them with filesystem > > UUIDs as used in fstab. > > No, blkid does not print a "PARTUUID" value with an MBR. In only prints > "UUID" values, which as you noted, are _filesystem_ UUIDs. If you > want to use a filesystem UUID to locate the root partition, you need > an initramfs/initrd which contains an 'init' program that finds the > filesystem with the specified UUID, mounts that filesystem, and then > does a root_pivot. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Hello. Just walk > at along and try NOT to > think > gmail.com about your INTESTINES > being > almost FORTY YARDS > LONG!! > > > SCREW ME! Still messing around with these IDs.
Sorry for disturbance. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Randolph Maaßen
