Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?

2011-01-21 Thread 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

[gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?

2011-01-20 Thread walt
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