[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote: On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. BTW:

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... Does boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I found numerous references to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Andrea Conti
boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I am not sure about grub 2, but 0.97 knows nothing about filesystem labels (and neither does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... Does boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:55:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem