On 14 August 2016 at 18:01, Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote: > > Since SATA support was merged, certainly since v2.4, and from way > before /dev/disk/by-id existed.
I have no idea how "SATA before USB" had been done in the past (if it was ever a thing in the kernel), but that has not been the case since at least v3.0 AFAIR. > > People may not run udev, and you can't use /dev/disk/by-id on kernel > command line. > No, but you can always use root=PARTUUID=, that's built into the kernel. (root=UUID= requires udev or so though).
