linux fan wrote:
> On 6/30/10, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The Linux kernel generally needs to be told what it's root partition is.
>> To the best of my knowledge, it understands root=/dev/<device> and
>> root=LABEL=label-name.
>
> I so wished that to be true that I grasped at straws, but kernel won't
> understand
> root=LABEL=label-name any better than root=UUID=bla-bla-bla without initrd.
> However, there is a somewhat cool thing which worked:
>
> menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33 (label)" {
> insmod ext2
> search --no-floppy --label --set LFS-6-6
> linux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33
> }
>
> where LFS-6-6 is the e2label of the partition in question.
> And fstab can have:
> LABEL=LFS-6-6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
I wish your solution worked too. I think Nathan's comment about "Load
the partition set within the kernel image (Set w/ rdev)" holds here.
I'll bet the following works for you too:
menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33 (label)" {
linux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33
}
-- Bruce
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