On 16Oct2011 18:09, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: | On 10/16/2011 05:47 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > I've got a machine at home whose / drive gets renamed depending on | > whether the PCI SCSI RAID stuff is broken or not. Hmm, shall root be on | > sdb or sdc today? Maddening when trying to rescue. | | Make sure that every partition has a label and use them in fstab. (If | the partition's already mounted by UUID, add a comment to the file | giving the label.) Then, when rescuing, you can unmount your drives and | remount them by using mount -a to get them where you want them. Which is no good for the root= kernel command line option. And the root=LABEL= syntax is apparently a nonstandard kernel patch. I mount stuff in /etc/fstab with labels - more readable; I tak your point about using a UUID and a label in the comment. When I say "rescue", here I'm not meaning "boot off a CDROM and fsck etc my OS". I mean "my system doesn't boot because it can't find the root partition". It is "hunt the /dev/sdX" device, with many minutes of delay between retries. More annoying that my words can describe. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The road less traveled is FASTER !! - Luc Marcouiller, marcouil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
