Nils Larsson :
> On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote:
>> Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to
>> find the rootfs?
>
> You have to use a initramfs, see:
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting
Starting from kernel-2.6.37 [1,
On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote:
> Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to
> find the rootfs?
You have to use a initramfs, see:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting
This is a followup to my grub2 thread, which got a bit too long for comfort.
I actually have grub2 installed and working properly, so it's very do-able.
But the main point (for me) was grub2's ability to find partitions by LABEL.
That is, if you know the LABEL of the boot partition, grub2 is gua
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