On 2007/12/07 16:33 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:

> The Friday 2007-12-07 at 09:27 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> AFAIK, all current and recent Linux distros support mount by-label

> Even grub in 10.3 supports mounting by label. I tried yesterday:

> title MAIN openSUSE 10.3 (default-label)
>      root (hd0,5)
>      kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-label/160_root vga=0x317 
> hwprobe=-modules.pata resume=/dev/hda5 splash=verbose showopts apic

ISTR the YaST installer puts all kernel parameters used during installation
on the kernel lines in menu.lst, but does anyone know if
hwprobe=-modules.pata has any meaning or relevance to anything other than the
YaST installer?
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