On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Can you point to some documentation on how you can use >>> root=PARTUID=<partition-uuid> with an DOS/MBR partition table? >> >> As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and >> GPT). I have DOS/MBR partition table and my kernel commandline looks >> like: >> >> root=UUID=1d21fa55-0fa9-4d43-8d41-8b4193900efa ro log_buf_len=1M quiet >> rootfstype=ext4 raid=noautodetect >> >> (along with an initramfs) > > Yes, we've already discussed that if you have an initrd (or > initramfs), and an 'init' program that handles it, you can use > filesystem labels and filesystem uuids. > > The option we were discussing in the posting to which you replied is > that of using the root=PARTUUID method which is handled directly by > the kernel.
Ah, sorry, I missed that detail. I thought I was helping to clear up confusion, when in fact I was the confused one! :)
